California · Nonprofit
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC (California) receives grants from 722 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,953,268 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($14,309,500). 431 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 722
- Grants received
- $78M
- Net assets
- $227M
What Canine Companions for Independence Inc does
Mission
Canine companions for independence is a nonprofit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing expertly trained service dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships, at no cost to clients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training and client services - canine companions placed 603 working dogs in 2025. Our professional instructors spend six to nine months teaching the dog to master more than 40 tasks before the dog can be matched with an adult or child who has a disability, or a professional assisting people at risk. We provide service dogs to individuals with more than 65 types of disabilities, including a wide range of physical, cognitive, developmental, and auditory disabilities.we train service and facility dogs to best serve our clients. In 2025, we placed 380 service dogs, which included 44 dogs trained to assist individuals who are d/deaf or hard of hearing to alert to sounds. We take immense pride in our veterans' initiative. The men and women who have served and sacrificed in our military often come back with injuries, some visible and others not. In 2025 we provided 46 dogs to veterans including 41 dogs trained to provide specialized tasks for veterans with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). In addition, we provided 72 dogs to professionals who are utilizing the dog to meet clients' therapy goals and support clients with disabilities or who are at risk. We also provided 9 agency…
$18,426,142 spent$225,522 earned by the program49% of program spendingBreeding and puppy raising / veterinary - over the past 50 years, we have developed a proven formula for breeding, raising, and training service dogs. We breed labrador retrievers, golden retrievers, and crosses of the two to be service dogs. Volunteer breeder caretakers care for our breeder dogs and nurture newborn puppies for eight weeks. Volunteer puppy raisers then raise the dogs until they are 16-18 months of age, teaching them their first twenty tasks. At the end of 2025, we had 1,256 active, volunteer puppy raisers and 1,104 active puppies. Our team of veterinary and canine early care staff support the health and wellbeing of our breeder dogs and the litters they whelp (960 live puppies in 2025). Canine companions veterinarians also provide consultation support to our puppy raisers and graduates with canine health questions and concerns. We are involved in numerous research projects with leading university and industry research groups.
$11,332,052 spentof which $28,923 as grants30% of program spendingPublic information and local presence - we proactively provide education regarding service dogs, disability and service dog etiquette, and the challenges faced by service dog handlers in public places. Our efforts have produced many articles in national and local newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and online. We have worked with national and local web, radio, and television broadcasts to bring awareness of our program, with a reach of over 13 billion. To keep supporters informed of national, regional and local activities, we distribute a tri-annual print newsletter, monthly electronic communications and direct mail packages that educate the general public and provide program updates. Additionally, canine companions has public service announcements available for broadcast and radio media outlets and maintains and regularly updates accounts on social media including facebook, x, linkedin, instagram, tiktok, and youtube.
$8,150,470 spent$16,192 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,908,664.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $112M to $157M (+40%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 4% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Paige Mazzoni
Chief executive officer
Board chair
John Sabo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 171 funders to 302 funders, grant income rose $3.6M → $9.2M.
83 of 722 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 722 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
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
54% 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 CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 11% · 2018 16% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2023 17% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 43 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34M arriving through sponsors registered in 28 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.
Against its field
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Defense$1.6M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.0M
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 CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Canine Companions Charitable Properties LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC?
- CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC (California) receives grants from 722 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,953,268 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($14,309,500). 431 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 722 organizations giving $77,953,268 in grants to CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC, 431 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,309,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 722 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