Virginia · Nonprofit
DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC
DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $632,653 to it, the largest being PETER AND ANN LAMBERTUS FAMILY FOUNDATIO ($190,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $634k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $633k
- Net assets
- $529k
What Dogs Deserve Better Inc does
Mission
To provide a better life for chained, penned, neglected, abused or homeless animals by providing veterinary care and resources, advocating for humane legislation and educating the community on animal welfare.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To cover vet care, including spay/neuter services, rehabilitate and prepare dogs for life inside to include supplies and training if needed. To provide fencing and housing in accordance with state code for dogs living outside.
$746,710 spent98% of program spendingTo cover vet care, including spay/neuter services, rehabilitate and prepare dogs for life inside to include supplies and training if needed. To provide fencing and housing in accordance with state code for dogs living outside.
$13,025 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $759,735.
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 2023 to 2024, from $669k to $530k (−21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 0% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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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 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $82k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC’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
DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
48% 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 DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 42% · 2020 28% · 2021 24% · 2022 38% · 2023 73% — 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
27% of DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% 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 DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC?
- DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC (Virginia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $632,653 to it, the largest being PETER AND ANN LAMBERTUS FAMILY FOUNDATIO ($190,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $632,653 in grants to DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC?
- PETER AND ANN LAMBERTUS FAMILY FOUNDATIO is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOGS DESERVE BETTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 19 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