Utah · Nonprofit
Canines With a Cause
Canines With a Cause (Utah) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $920,444 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($229,527). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $428k
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $920k
- Net assets
- $322k
What Canines With a Cause does
Mission
The mission of Canines With a Cause is to harness the untapped potential of shelter dogs to heal emotional and psychological wounds, provide unconditional love, support and companionship, and give a new leash on life to those in need through assistance, therapy or service dog work. Making a difference, one person and one dog at a time!
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Transforming two lives at once, Canines With a Cause (CWAC) pairs rescued dogs with veterans affected by PTSD (PTSD), TBI, and MST, offering complimentary, personalized training classes to form psychiatric service dog teams. To accomplish this, CWAC begins by identifying suitable canine candidates from local animal shelters and rescue organizations. We select dogs with the ideal temperament and traits, then adopt and place them in either our prison program, a foster home, or, in some cases, the veteran-in-waiting. This pre-training process prepares both the dog and the veteran for a successful partnership. CWAC also collaborated with the Walter Reed Military Hospital Soldier Rehabilitation Program and the Uniformed Services University's Wounded Warrior Service Dog Program, working to facilitate the provision of service dogs to military beneficiaries and veterans. This partnership aimed to share best practices in service dog training and education. Unfortunately, the program faced setbacks, including the suspension of the Utah prison program due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the termination of the Walter Reed program's funding in 2025 due to budget cuts. This has forced CWAC to…
$228,377 spentof which $263,458 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $228,377.
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 2019 to 2020, from $52k to $364k (+596%).
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: 2019 59% · 2020 72% · 2021 26% · 2022 55% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Canines With a Cause’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $58k → $238k.
10 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Canines With a Cause’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
Canines With a Cause has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Canines With a Cause.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 41% · 2019 68% · 2020 26% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 60% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of Canines With a Cause's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
Canines With a Cause draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Canines With a Cause runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Canines With a Cause receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $930k on record.
- Department of Defense$930k
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 Canines With a Cause
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 Utah
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Canines With a Cause: 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 Canines With a Cause?
- Canines With a Cause (Utah) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $920,444 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($229,527). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Canines With a Cause have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $920,444 in grants to Canines With a Cause, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Canines With a Cause?
- GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $229,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Canines With a Cause find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 40 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