Georgia · Nonprofit
Companions for Heroes
Companions for Heroes (Georgia) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,957 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($119,889). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $456k
- Funders on record
- 68
- Grants received
- $690k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Companions for Heroes does
Mission
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mission: Companions for Heroes (C4H) provides Companion Dogs and Service Dogs obtained from shelters and/or rescues, who might otherwise be euthanized, free of charge to active duty military personnel and their children with special needs, ages 2-18, military veterans, and first-responders recovering from the psychological challenges they suffered during service to our country. C4H increases public awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other challenges confronting our countrys heroes; and rallys support for animal welfare and the adoption of shelter and/or rescue dogs.Program Service: Dogs are trained and certified to obtain the American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen Certification; or the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Service Dogs Only). A care package that includes a t-shirt, toys, etc. All recipients receive six (6) scheduled follow-up meetings over the first year of the dog's adoption and entry in the program. Coordinated additional follow-on training, including payment for additional training, and arranging services as required. Processing of the recipient's request for a Service Dog, to include identification of the…
$311,184 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $311,184.
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 2018 to 2019, from $474k to $928k (+96%).
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 9% · 2018 3% · 2021 9% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Companions for Heroes’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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.
Chief executive
David Sharpe
CEO
Board chair
Daniel Merritt
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $78k → $32k.
16 of 68 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Companions for Heroes’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 68 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
Companions for Heroes has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 Companions for Heroes.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 75% · 2019 29% · 2020 28% · 2021 25% · 2022 30% · 2023 56% — 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
14% of Companions for Heroes's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
Companions for Heroes draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Companions for Heroes runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like Companions for Heroes
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Companions for Heroes: 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 Companions for Heroes?
- Companions for Heroes (Georgia) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,957 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($119,889). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Companions for Heroes have?
- IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $689,957 in grants to Companions for Heroes, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Companions for Heroes?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $119,889 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Companions for Heroes find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 68 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