Arizona · Nonprofit
CHANCE SHELTER
CHANCE SHELTER (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,145 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Chance Shelter does
Mission
To provide compassionate care to animals through adoptions, education, crisis intervention, and community involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Crisis intervention - Chance Shelter continues to be a resource for our community outreach partners. We have alliances with hospital social workers, care facilities, funeral homes, first responders, and the city of surprise human services and vitality. We service pets whos owners are facing a crisis situation, by offering short and long term fostering at no cost to the owner. Chance Shelter has a strong adoption program for the pets that are unable to reunite with owners or that have been surrender, through our referral process, due to a crisis situation. We conduct home evaluations for each potential adopter to ensure that the pet and adopter are a good fit for one another. We continue our alliances with mid-western university and have now added west-mec to help us keep veterinary costs down.
$1,179 spent77% of program spendingCommunity outreach & volunteer program - Chance Shelter provides pet supplies, basic veterinarian assistance (spay/neuter, vaccinations) for low income, unhoused and at risk community members. We do this through our alliance with our cities human services and vitality resource center where we are located every monday and friday. Chance Shelter participates in many of our city and surrounding communities homeless outreach & veteran events, including project connect, hope, and city of surprise vet fest. We actively advocate for pets through raising community awareness, at these and many other events, including starting up our youth pet safety and awareness presentations again which will be offered at various locations within our city. Our foster and volunteer program remain strong, with quarterly volunteer meetings, pet cpr classes and many opportunities to attend events to advocate for pets.
$358 spent$2,600 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,537.
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 $39k to $1.0M (+2516%).
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 0% · 2021 2% · 2023 7% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CHANCE SHELTER’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $390.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 CHANCE SHELTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CHANCE SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 CHANCE SHELTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of CHANCE SHELTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHANCE SHELTER runs a healthier operating margin 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 CHANCE SHELTER
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
1% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 CHANCE SHELTER: 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 CHANCE SHELTER?
- CHANCE SHELTER (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,145 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHANCE SHELTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,145 in grants to CHANCE SHELTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANCE SHELTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANCE SHELTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 3 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