Minnesota · Nonprofit
CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE
CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,541 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($696,481). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $528k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $954k
- Net assets
- $492k
What Canine Inspired Change does
Mission
Cics mission is to work with therapy dogs and their people to help promote social and emotional wellness to all of our participants and, therefore, the community at large. Cic develops and leads custom courses, fusing dog training and therapy to help empower and nurture students in a fun and non-threatening way.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Canine Inspired Change (cic) facilitated approximately 450 small-group therapy dog sessions focused on connection, healing, and social-emotional learning. These sessions were held in schools and various state, county, and community programs accross the twin cities, positively impacting over 515 participants and a great number of volunteers. Programming in 2025 impacted but was not limited to youth in regular education and special education programs, youth in a day and residential mental health programs, and incarderated youth and adults. Cic small group therapy dog programming continued to grow in 2025 to include work with youth in a substance abuse recovery program, building on many previous years of work with adults in substance abuse recovery programs. Cic continued to employ work-based learners to support training classes, programing, and general operations and continued to expand its dog training offerings to meet the needs of the community. Cic continued to offer youth camp programming and public offerings at its community education center in st. Paul, mn, and cics trained therapy dog teams took part in numerous community events throughout the twin cities metro area.
$338,338 spent$528,165 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $338,338.
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 2022 to 2023, from $216k to $358k (+66%).
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.
62% of CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Danielle Graczyk
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $12k → $185k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 INSPIRED CHANGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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 INSPIRED CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
25% 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 INSPIRED CHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 65% · 2022 72% · 2023 82% — 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 CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
85% of CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 INSPIRED CHANGE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE: 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 CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE?
- CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,541 to it, the largest being THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($696,481). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $953,541 in grants to CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE?
- THE SAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $696,481 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing