California · Nonprofit
COPPERS DREAM RESCUE
COPPERS DREAM RESCUE (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,196 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($299,973). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $457k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $500k
- Net assets
- $421k
What Coppers Dream Rescue does
Mission
To end the euthanasia of adoptable dogs in the united states through increasing public awareness, taking legal action that will benefit shelter animals, prompting low cost spay/neuter programs and by rescuing dogs scheduled for euthenasia and housing them until permanent homes can be found
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our primary program service is to rescue dogs that are scheduled for euthnasia at high kill california shelters. We arrange to transport the dogs to the bay area, provide necesarry vet care, training and rehabilitation and house them in foster care until suitable permanent homes can be found. Occasionally, we rescue dogs that cannot be adopted due to medical or behavior issues. And we provide sanctuary for those dogs for their natural lifespans. In 2025, we rescued and placed 255 dogs and cats.
$273,673 spent$116,450 earned by the program100% of program spendingOur secondary program is to increase public awareness of the animal overpopulation problem and to rally people to join our cause. We do this through maintaing a facebook page and publishing information on shelter dogs to our community of dog loving followers. We also hold many events through the year such as barbecues, happy hours and charity auctions that raise funds to support our rescue and help us disseminate information about california high kill shelters to the general public. Finally, this year, we recruited over 200 new volunteers who assist us placing our rescue dogs and our campaign to educate the public about californias animal overpopulation problem.
$0 spent0% of program spendingFinally, our third program service is to assist the general public with rehoming their dogs. We help both families who need to surrender their own dogs and good samaritans who have taken in stray dogs that need to be rehomed. We also assist other rescues and shelters by offering courtesy posting section on our website. Finally, we donate supplies to some of the high kill shelters where we rescue dogs.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $273,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $260k to $421k (+62%).
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.
74% of COPPERS DREAM RESCUE’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. 1 of the last 4 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 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $29k.
8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 COPPERS DREAM RESCUE’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
COPPERS DREAM RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 COPPERS DREAM RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 62% · 2020 93% · 2021 56% · 2022 79% · 2023 50% — 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
29% of COPPERS DREAM RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of COPPERS DREAM RESCUE'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $490k 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
COPPERS DREAM RESCUE 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 COPPERS DREAM RESCUE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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 COPPERS DREAM RESCUE: 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 COPPERS DREAM RESCUE?
- COPPERS DREAM RESCUE (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $500,196 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($299,973). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COPPERS DREAM RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $500,196 in grants to COPPERS DREAM RESCUE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COPPERS DREAM RESCUE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $299,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COPPERS DREAM RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 12 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