Missouri · Nonprofit
CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS
CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS (Missouri) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,140,340 to it, the largest being TYNEWALD FOUNDATION ($505,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $792k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $462k
What Champ Assistance Dogs does
Mission
It is the mission of CHAMP Assistance Dogs to improve and enhance life skills and promote companionship through the placement of specially selected service dogs with qualified individuals, and further, to always celebrate the mystery and joy inherent in the canine/human bond. It is our vision that both partners, dog and human, will have a better life because of the other.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ASSISTANCE DOG PROGRAMCHAMP trains and places assistance dogs to enhance life skills and increase the independence of individuals (children, adults, and veterans) with physical and/or cognitive disabilities. It costs CHAMP up to $40,000 to train and place an assistance dog. However, CHAMPs assistance dogs were placed free of charge. In the fiscal that ended September 30, 2025, CHAMP place one home service dog, and three facility dogs. CHAMP placed the facility dogs at a child advocacy center, a camp for children and adults with disabilities, and the very first National Soccer League Facility Dog was placed at STL City SC.CHAMP facility dogs work with professional caregivers who serve as their handler. Facility Dogs help motivate a client or patient while helping them achieve their goals. In a child advocacy center or a courtroom, a facility dog is available to comfort a child as they face a frightening or stressful procedure in the criminal justice system.During the year, a portion of the training of CHAMPs assistance dogs was done through CHAMPS partnership with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Greenville, IL. Through this partnership, women offenders in a prison camp help to…
$405,865 spent$400 earned by the program75% of program spendingTHERAPY DOG PROGRAM CHAMP Therapy Dog Teams visit children and adults in hospitals, assisted living centers, hospice centers, medical facilities, and schools. Interactions with a CHAMP Therapy Dog Team can relieve stress, lower heart rates, provide comfort during a stressful procedure or simply bring a comforting presence to students preparing for final exams. The CHAMP Therapy Dog Program is a free service that serves CHAMPs community. Throughout the year, CHAMP Therapy Dog teams visited approximately 83,000 children and adults. That was a 34% increase in visits over the previous year.
$84,012 spent$4,930 earned by the program15% of program spendingEDUCATION PROGRAMCHAMP Education Programs are delivered by engaging speakers accompanied by service dogs-in-training and CHAMP Therapy Dogs. These community programs promote public education, focus on ability awareness, and provide demonstrations of service dog skills while increasing awareness of the health benefits dogs provide to people of all ages. Throughout the year, CHAMP touched the lives of approximately 6,000 children and adults through CHAMPs education presentations.
$54,338 spent$11,940 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $544,215.
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 $232k to $356k (+53%).
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: 2021 17% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $122k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 63% · 2019 57% · 2020 55% · 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 53% — 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
78% of CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $403k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $57k on record.
- Department of Justice$57k
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 CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS?
- CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS (Missouri) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,140,340 to it, the largest being TYNEWALD FOUNDATION ($505,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,140,340 in grants to CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS?
- TYNEWALD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $505,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMP ASSISTANCE DOGS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 21 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