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Dark Horse Dogs NFP

Dark Horse Dogs NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,636 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($40,194). 5 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 FY2024
$259k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$99k
Net assets
$134k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Dark Horse Dogs NFP does

Mission

Mission Statement: To rescue locally, responsibly & realistically.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Animal Care

    $182,516 spent$260,533 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $182,516.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($81k) Expenses 100 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2023 Revenue 184 ($150k) Expenses 172 ($114k) Net assets 257 ($58k)2024 Revenue 319 ($259k) Expenses 275 ($183k) Net assets 597 ($134k)
202220232024
Revenue (319)Expenses (275)Net assets (597)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $58k to $134k (+132%).

$22k
$58k
$134k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’22
$35k
’23
$76k
’24
8.8
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $29 → $9k.

5 of 9 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 Dark Horse Dogs NFP’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

Dark Horse Dogs NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 Dark Horse Dogs NFP.

41%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — 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

50% of Dark Horse Dogs NFP's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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 Dark Horse Dogs NFP'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 Illinois, across 3 states.

NY
NC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Dark Horse Dogs NFP

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds Dark Horse Dogs NFP?
Dark Horse Dogs NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,636 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($40,194). 5 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 Dark Horse Dogs NFP have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $98,636 in grants to Dark Horse Dogs NFP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Dark Horse Dogs NFP?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $40,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Dark Horse Dogs NFP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 9 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