Washington · Nonprofit
DOG GONE SEATTLE
DOG GONE SEATTLE (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,593 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($254,820). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $639k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $561k
- Net assets
- $853k
What Dog Gone Seattle does
Mission
Dog Gone Seattle is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to saving homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. We are a foster-based organization, and our rescue is 100% funded through adoption fees and donations. We believe every dog deserves a chance at a forever home, and we aim to make a difference in the lives of these deserving animals, one dog at a time.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Dog Gone Seattle has rescued over 6,000 unwanted dogs since 2017. We are a foster and volunteer based rescue organization, which allows us to give each dog the special care and training needed to find the right fit in a loving forever home. Every dog that comes into our rescue receives a veterinary exam including vaccinations, spay and neuter and microchipping prior to adoption. We rely on adoption fees and donations from the general public to fund our organization. In a calendar year, we host 45-50 adoption events allowing the public to meet our adoptable dogs. Our adoption process includes an application, in person meeting(s) and reference checks to ensure the best possible placement for our dogs. If the dog is not a good fit for the family we take our dog back into our rescue. In addition to adoption events, we host several small community based fundraising events a year (raising less than $3,000 per event). Dog Gone Seattle proudly takes on many dogs that other shelters cannot help, including dogs with behavioral issues or special medical needs. We have rehabilitated dogs with aggression issues, reactivity, and separation anxiety; likewise we have rehabilitated dogs with…
$444,089 spent100% of program spendingThe organiztion has raised $215,000 for its wellness and growth initiative. The wellness and growth initiative(wag) is to support a vision of affordable and accessible veternariay care for dogs in rescue and in the comunity at large. The wag initiavtive seeks to build out a veterinary clinic in the community center over the next 2-4 years. The initiative helped host spay and neuter days with the fixers collective in 2025 altering over 80 dogs for Dog Gone Seattle and other local rescues.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $444,089.
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 2021 to 2022, from $558k to $801k (+44%).
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.
41% of DOG GONE SEATTLE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $32k → $137k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 GONE SEATTLE’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 GONE SEATTLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 DOG GONE SEATTLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 60% · 2022 87% · 2023 46% — 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 DOG GONE SEATTLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
79% of DOG GONE SEATTLE'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $442k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
DOG GONE SEATTLE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,282 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,282 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like DOG GONE SEATTLE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOG GONE SEATTLE?
- DOG GONE SEATTLE (Washington) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,593 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($254,820). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOG GONE SEATTLE have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $560,593 in grants to DOG GONE SEATTLE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOG GONE SEATTLE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $254,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOG GONE SEATTLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 21 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