Minnesota · Nonprofit
CAN DO CANINES
CAN DO CANINES (Minnesota) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,453,747 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,973,470). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 149
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Can Do Canines does
Mission
Can Do Canines transforms people's lives by creating mutually beneficial partnerships with specially trained dogs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
1. Assistance dog training servicesa. During 2025 we received 355 application requests for assistance dogs from people with disabilities. These individuals are attempting to live their lives independently. Due to the lack of funding for training assistance dogs, some of these individuals apply to more than one program, or some struggle to pay significant fees to other organizations in order to get an assistance dog sooner.b. Each application we receive for an assistance dog is reviewed for complete content, and then all potential clients are interviewed. During this interview, the potential client learns all that is involved with obtaining and working with their new partner and how much their life may change, both in the workplace and in their home environment. This interview provides Can Do Canines with information on their environment, strengths, weaknesses, range of motion, lifestyle, and expectations of the potential client.c. Once an applicant is accepted, trainers look for a dog that matches the client's lifestyle and personality in addition to meeting the needs of their new partner. Each dog is trained to accomplish the tasks needed for their particular client. Client…
$3,485,474 spent100% of program spendingPuppy raising and dog acquisitiona. The puppy program included 251 dogs this year. These pups came from other assistance dog organizations, were donated, or bred by Can Do Canines and raised by inmates or volunteers. A total of 58 dogs came into the kennels for final training.b. We had 593 volunteer host puppy raiser homes this year, with 150 being new in 2025. These volunteers are a very important part of our services. Puppies are placed with volunteer families at ten weeks of age for early socialization. This process is crucial for the puppy to reach its full potential as an adult. Puppy raisers work with our puppy program staff and instructors. They attend monthly training classes and public access outings during the time they are raising their puppy. This program will continue to play an important role in our future success.305 individuals completed an application to participate in the host program. C. Our puppy program volunteers provided an estimated 453,488 hours of housing, nurturing, loving, socializing, and working with their puppies this year. These volunteers save Can Do Canines immeasurable dollars each year. For example, if our program were to pay just $4.00 per hour…
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,485,474.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $4.9M to $5.8M (+20%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2023 11% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jeff Johnson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 76 funders, grant income rose $355k → $1.1M.
25 of 149 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CAN DO CANINES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 149 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAN DO CANINES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAN DO CANINES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 14% · 2019 12% · 2020 13% · 2021 14% · 2022 7% · 2023 9% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of CAN DO CANINES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of CAN DO CANINES's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding CAN DO CANINES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $366k on record.
- Department of Justice$366k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CAN DO CANINES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAN DO CANINES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES?
- CAN DO CANINES (Minnesota) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,453,747 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,973,470). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAN DO CANINES have?
- IRS filings report 149 organizations giving $9,453,747 in grants to CAN DO CANINES, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAN DO CANINES?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,973,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAN DO CANINES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 149 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing