California · Nonprofit
DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS
DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,531 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($268,845). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $969k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $429k
- Net assets
- $261k
What Doggie Protective Services for Homeless Tails does
Mission
We save dogs from kill shelters across California and adopted 940 dogs in 2025 Some are seniors, some are abused, some are left on doorsteps with severe medical needs which we address (broken legs, heart murmurs, gunshot wounds). Overall, 2025 was a year of significant growth, increased community involvement, and continued commitment to animals with complex medical, behavioral, and placement needs. Many of the cases DPS accepted required substantial financial resources, extended periods of veterinary care, specialized treatment, transportation, foster placement, and organizational coordination. Despite these challenges, the organization continued to expand its partnerships, develop new programs, support underserved members of the community, and provide lifesaving care and permanent homes for animals that might otherwise have had limited options.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During 2025, Doggie Protective Services (DPS Rescue) continued to expand its lifesaving, community outreach, foster, medical, and shelter-support programs while taking on several significant and complex rescue cases. One of our most significant accomplishments was being requested by Animal Control to accompany them onto a property containing more than 70 dogs and provide leadership and assistance with the rescue operation. DPS took more than 35 of the dogs into our own program and coordinated with other rescue organizations to place the remaining dogs, ensuring that the animals received appropriate care and were moved into safe environments. DPS continued operating a small Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program for community cats and remained actively involved in assisting animals whose owners or communities lacked the resources necessary to provide adequate care. Our organization continued to accept animals with significant and often life-threatening medical needs. One dog required lifesaving liver-shunt surgery, an extremely delicate and invasive procedure with significant risks and costs. Other challenging medical cases included Gogurt, a six-week-old puppy who entered our program…
$678,003 spent$567,982 earned by the program100% of program spendingRoadie, a four-month-old puppy who was struck by a vehicle, required more than four surgeries and approximately eight to nine months of rehabilitation before he was fully healed and able to be adopted. Bacon Bits, a senior Labrador Retriever, entered our program with an abscess and significant dental problems and required approximately four to five months of medical treatment before he was healthy enough for placement. Bob Marley developed seizures shortly after arriving at DPS and required approximately seven months of extensive veterinary evaluation and treatment to determine potential causes, stabilize his condition, and ultimately prepare him for adoption. We also responded to a situation in Southern California involving a mother dog, eight newborn puppies, and three adult dogs who had been abandoned in a backyard. DPS coordinated the rescue and transportation of the animals to Northern California, arranged necessary veterinary care and grooming, and cared for the mother and puppies for approximately eight weeks before they were placed in permanent homes. DPS continued to assist with large-scale neglect and hoarding situations. In one case, approximately 2030 dogs were living…
$0 spent0% of program spendingWe also responded to a case involving a dog whose owner had become the subject of national news because of serious criminal activity involving crimes against law enforcement. At the request of a Northern California shelter, DPS agreed to take responsibility for the dog and provide housing and care while legal and ownership matters were resolved. Approximately three months later, the dog was formally released to DPS and was able to be placed. A significant area of our work continued to be community support. DPS maintained an ongoing program assisting unhoused individuals and families who were unable to consistently obtain food for their companion animals. Through donated resources, we distributed pet food on a monthly basis and developed relationships within the community that allowed volunteers, donors, and other organizations to participate in providing assistance. We continued strengthening our professional relationship with the San Jose Animal Care and Control agency, becoming one of its primary and most committed rescue partners and consistently assisting with the placement of dogs from the shelter. DPS also maintained active relationships with more than 25 animal shelters and…
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $678,003.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $83k to $261k (+214%).
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 DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS’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. 3 of the last 6 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 6 funders, grant income rose $340 → $145k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS’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
DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 41% · 2022 91% · 2023 60% — 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
33% of DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS'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
97% of DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS'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, 86% of it comes from funders outside California, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $417k 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
DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS
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
86% 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 DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS?
- DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,531 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($268,845). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $428,531 in grants to DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $268,845 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOGGIE PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR HOMELESS TAILS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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