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DOGSINVESTS INC

DOGSINVESTS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,872 to it, the largest being MERKEL FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$119k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$171k
Net assets
$82k
8/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Dogsinvests Inc does

Mission

The organization is dedicated to providing ongoing education for both dog and patient to assure the best possible placement outcomes. The organizaitons strives to form a long-term invested relationship between dog, patient and the organization while providing positive outcomes for underserved Americans with disabilities in southeastern WI.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Service Dog Training The organization purchases, cares for, and trains service dogs to be placed with autistic individuals at little to no cost 10,000 family fee to the recipients and their families. In 2025 we ended the year with 2 dogs in training, Indigo, and Marty. Jade graduated as a Therapy Dog. We look forward to adding 2 more puppies to our program in 2026.

    $52,830 spent$10,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $52,830.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($103k) Expenses 100 ($73k) Net assets 100 ($229k)2019 Revenue 38 ($39k) Expenses 171 ($125k) Net assets 62 ($143k)2020 Revenue 119 ($123k) Expenses 196 ($144k) Net assets 52 ($119k)2021 Revenue 220 ($226k) Expenses 226 ($166k) Net assets 77 ($177k)2022 Revenue 50 ($52k) Expenses 262 ($193k) Net assets 16 ($36k)2023 Revenue 167 ($171k) Expenses 209 ($154k) Net assets 24 ($54k)2024 Revenue 115 ($118k) Expenses 144 ($106k) Net assets 28 ($64k)2025 Revenue 116 ($119k) Expenses 137 ($100k) Net assets 36 ($82k)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (137)Net assets (36)Peer revenue range

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 $179k to $40k (−78%).

$232k
$147k
$135k
$179k
$40k
$60k
$66k
$90k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2024 18% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of DOGSINVESTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’18
−$86k
’19
−$21k
’20
$60k
’21
−$141k
’22
$18k
’23
$13k
’24
$19k
’25
11
months of
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.

Chief executive

Paul Holt

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $4k → $18k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 DOGSINVESTS 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

DOGSINVESTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

33% 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 DOGSINVESTS INC.

29%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 44% · 2022 33% · 2023 48% — 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 DOGSINVESTS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

98% of DOGSINVESTS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
WI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DOGSINVESTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve10.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DOGSINVESTS 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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

53% of spending goes to programs.

Program 53%Management 47%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOGSINVESTS INC?
DOGSINVESTS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,872 to it, the largest being MERKEL FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOGSINVESTS INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $170,872 in grants to DOGSINVESTS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOGSINVESTS INC?
MERKEL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOGSINVESTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 16 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