Michigan · Nonprofit
Dog Scouts of America
Dog Scouts of America (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $370 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($370). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $370
- Net assets
- $162k
What Dog Scouts of America does
Mission
Promote the human/canine bond
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Camp Program-Dog Scouts of America educates owners on topic relating to responsible dog ownership and the human/canine bond. It offers leadership training and increases the level of training at both ends of the leash. DSA runs camps each summer as well as additional training opportunities during two weekend camps in the fall. In 2024, 32 participants with their dogs attended summer camp where 108 badges were awarded. In 2024 DSA added a fall intensive training weekend program.
$21,244 spent91% of program spendingRecognition Program-DSA's badge and its competition/titling programs both encourage participants to get more involved with their dogs and within their communities. The badges and titles are earned when both human and dog demonstrate an understanding of the criteria for the badge. At this time here are more than 100 badges that can be earned as well as a number of titles with new badges being added each year. Each badge/title encourages interaction and continued learning on both ends of the leash as well as community interaction. The programs decrease the likelihood that a dog will be discarded at a shelter. In addition, DSA's certification program fosters troop development and trains leaders so that the DSA mission and activities can be shared on a local level all across the US and abroad.
$1,271 spent5% of program spendingEducation Outreach - DSA's website contains free information for the general public about how to be a responsible dog owner and improve the relationship between owners and their dogs. Dog Scout members do everything with reward-based training. The website provides information so owners can add clicker training, operant conditioning, and shaping to the dog training "toolbox". These tools can be used to reach dogs everything from basis manners to specialized training! Our goal is to help every dog owner value his canine companion even more and deepen the bond the owners has with his dog. With millions of dogs discarded each year, mostly due to behavioral problems or other poor excuses, we help fill the information void. We help dog owners become responsible and answer their problems.In 2024 DSA reached out to participants across the U.S. and internationally by conducting two virtual training camps.
$958 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $23,473.
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 2017 to 2018, from $383k to $370k (−3%).
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.
43% of Dog Scouts of America’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Melissa Matteson
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $70 → $93.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Scouts of America’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Dog Scouts of America'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Scouts of America runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Dog Scouts of America
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
92%
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 Scouts of America: 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 Dog Scouts of America?
- Dog Scouts of America (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $370 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($370). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Dog Scouts of America have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $370 in grants to Dog Scouts of America, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dog Scouts of America?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dog Scouts of America find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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