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DOVE PROJECT

DOVE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,220 to it, the largest being NICHOLAS FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$345k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$227k
Net assets
$-65567
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 19%
01What it does

What Dove Project does

Mission

Prevention of cruelty to animals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Dove Project, dogs of violence exposed, supports the end of the dog meat trade in south korea, where the industry is currently legally sanctioned. From 08/2016-12/2024, more than 1,300 dogs have been rescued from certain death from the dog meat trade in s. Korea. Of these, more than 1,000 have been placed in permanent adoptive homes in the united states. All rescued dogs are given a lifetime promise by Dove Project, ensuring their health, safety, and overall well-being. Additionally, working with s. Korean activists and providing financial and logistical support,9 illegal dog meat farms and slaughterhouses have been permanently closed.

    $390,455 spentof which $259,101 as grants$15,906 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $390,455.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($283k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($174k)2018 Revenue 120 ($341k) Expenses 246 ($274k) Net assets 139 ($241k)2019 Revenue 99 ($281k) Expenses 467 ($522k) Net assets 1 ($997)2020 Revenue 157 ($446k) Expenses 403 ($450k) Net assets -1 ($-2596)2021 Revenue 131 ($372k) Expenses 337 ($376k) Net assets -4 ($-6379)2022 Revenue 64 ($182k) Expenses 156 ($175k) Net assets 1 ($1k)2023 Revenue 107 ($304k) Expenses 291 ($325k) Net assets -11 ($-19771)2024 Revenue 122 ($345k) Expenses 350 ($390k) Net assets -38 ($-65567)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (350)Net assets (-38)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 2018 to 2019, from $241k to $997 (−100%).

$174k
$241k
$997
$-2596
$12k
$1k
$4k
$29k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of DOVE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$172k
’17
$67k
’18
−$240k
’19
−$4k
’20
−$4k
’21
$8k
’22
−$21k
’23
−$46k
’24
0.9
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

Claudia Bright

President/CEO/CFO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $57k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 DOVE PROJECT’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

DOVE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

29% 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 DOVE PROJECT.

66%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 64% · 2019 68% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of DOVE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

DOVE PROJECT draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

WI
NJ
CA
NC

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

’21
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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

DOVE PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like DOVE PROJECT

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOVE PROJECT: 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 DOVE PROJECT?
DOVE PROJECT (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,220 to it, the largest being NICHOLAS FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST ($150,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOVE PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $227,220 in grants to DOVE PROJECT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOVE PROJECT?
NICHOLAS FAMILY FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOVE PROJECT 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.

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 10 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