Michigan · Nonprofit
ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER
ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,524 to it, the largest being TWO SEVEN OH INC ($53,173). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $301k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $299k
What Elk Country Animal Shelter does
Mission
To operate an animal shelter in montmorency county, michigan so homeless animals have an opportunity to find loving homes. In addition, to educate the public on proper animal care, as well as to promote spaying and neutering.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Low cost spay and neuter program. Inserted microchips for pet identification. Presented bookcovers and programs to educate the public on the proper care of animals. To acquire the resources to maintain the facility that shelter homeless animals.
$217,460 spent97% of program spendingSales tax paid on sales of various pet supplies sold for the convenience of those adopting pets.
$6,486 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $223,946.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $570k to $512k (−10%).
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.
20% of ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER’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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $11k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER’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
ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 95% · 2021 99% · 2022 87% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER: 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 ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER?
- ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,524 to it, the largest being TWO SEVEN OH INC ($53,173). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $69,524 in grants to ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER?
- TWO SEVEN OH INC is the largest funder on record, with $53,173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 7 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