Missouri · Nonprofit
DUO DOGS INC
DUO DOGS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,277,604 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($1,305,545). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What Duo Dogs Inc does
Mission
Duo dogs, inc. Is a national nonprofit organization that trains and connects dogs with people to cultivate meaningful changes in individuals, families, and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Assistance dog program: assistance dogs are bred, whelped, raised and trained to assistance dog international standards at the duo dogs facility to become service dogs. Once trained, the dogs can assist with mobility and hearing related tasks such as retrieving items, opening and closing doors, and alerting to sounds. Ptsd assistance dogs serve local veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder reorienting a client to time and place, reducing anxiety, intervening during nightmares or night terrors, and providing a social bridge for positive interactions in the community. A facility dog is trained and placed with a facility that works with at risk populations. Typically, the dog is used as a therapeutic tool by the handler, helping to initiate a response from the residents, patients or clients of the facility. These dogs have exceptional patience and temperament for working around all types of individuals. Courthouse facility dogs are placed with individuals who work with children and adults who have been mentally, physically and/or sexually abused. The dogs are used as part of the forensic interview process to help gather information from the victim. If necessary, the…
$984,828 spent$15,143 earned by the program64% of program spendingDuo touch therapy program: duo provides training and certification for volunteers and their personal dogs to visit partner facilities in which the patients or residents can benefit from a visit with a well-trained canine. Paws for reading teams visit classroom or library settings acting as an incentive for the children to increase time spent reading and improve their reading skills. Duo response dogs provide comfort and emotional support in the aftermath of a crisis. 298 certified volunteer teams, that include a handler and their personal dog, visited approximately 220,000 people in over 120 different facilities. All services are provided at no cost to the individual or facilities.
$377,803 spent$55,896 earned by the program25% of program spendingOutreach program: part of the mission of duo is to educate the community about assistance dogs and the programs offered.
$167,482 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,530,113.
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.
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 $6.4M to $7.4M (+16%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 6% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Dawn Van Houten
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Jason Frei
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $490k → $594k.
10 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 DUO DOGS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 funders by total. 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
DUO DOGS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
63% 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 DUO DOGS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 53% · 2019 53% · 2020 44% · 2021 43% · 2022 34% · 2023 29% — 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
55% of DUO DOGS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
76% of DUO DOGS INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding DUO DOGS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37k on record.
- Department of Justice$37k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DUO DOGS 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DUO DOGS INC: 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 DUO DOGS INC?
- DUO DOGS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,277,604 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($1,305,545). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DUO DOGS INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $4,277,604 in grants to DUO DOGS INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DUO DOGS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,305,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DUO DOGS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 61 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