California · Nonprofit
DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION
DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,592 to it, the largest being LISA & ERNEST AUERBACH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,109 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,109 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ellen Browning Scripps Foundationshared funders
- Heart of Gold Legacy Foundation Formerly Solid Gold Foundationportfolio match
- Ethel Frends Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $100k → $5k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION’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
DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 58% · 2022 53% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Ellen Browning Scripps Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Heart of Gold Legacy Foundation Formerly Solid Gold Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ethel Frends Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope for Pawsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jason Debus Heigl Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cmb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chrissie's Fund a Delaware Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carlos Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Waters Charitable Remainder Unitrustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Max Goldenson Foundation for Modern Dog Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marion and Richard Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
0% 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 DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION?
- DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,592 to it, the largest being LISA & ERNEST AUERBACH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $160,592 in grants to DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION?
- LISA & ERNEST AUERBACH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOG DREAMS FOUNDATION 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.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing