Oregon · Nonprofit
FENCES FOR FIDO
FENCES FOR FIDO (Oregon) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,824 to it, the largest being The Carol Moss Foundation ($206,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $736k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $625k
- Net assets
- $616k
What Fences for Fido does
Mission
To improve the quality of life for dogs living outdoors by building fences free of charge for families who keep their dogs on chains, tethers, or in small enclosures. We also provide a doghouse for each dog, as well as spay/neuter services and emergency veterinary care. To accelerate the unchaining movement, we actively supportand mentor new unchaining groups all over the country.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Build program: this program unchains dogs through building fences and providing doghouses. We perform this service in the portland, central oregon, sw washington and oregon coast areas.
$272,094 spent36% of program spendingAnimal care program: this program helps provide for the basic needs of the dogs, including food, flea treatment, dog beds, toys, etc. The main expenses of this program are spay/neuter services, vaccinations and general medical treatments to get the dog healthy and starting in 2022 providing dog and cat food on a monthly basis to the warm springs commodities program.
$294,582 spent39% of program spendingTribal animal food program: this program provides food resources for the underserved community of the confederated tribes of warm springs by having food delivered each month to the commodities building for distribution with the human food bank, as well as providing home delivery for some people with disabilities, elders, etc. Food assistance is also available to those off the reservation.
$185,885 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $752,561.
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.
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 $356k to $712k (+100%).
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.
107% of FENCES FOR FIDO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Kelly Peterson
Board chair & co-founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $24k → $103k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 FENCES FOR FIDO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
FENCES FOR FIDO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
47% 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 FENCES FOR FIDO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 47% · 2019 39% · 2020 48% · 2021 46% · 2022 46% · 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 FENCES FOR FIDO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
FENCES FOR FIDO draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FENCES FOR FIDO is better cushioned than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FENCES FOR FIDO
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FENCES FOR FIDO: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FENCES FOR FIDO?
- FENCES FOR FIDO (Oregon) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,824 to it, the largest being The Carol Moss Foundation ($206,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FENCES FOR FIDO have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $624,824 in grants to FENCES FOR FIDO, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FENCES FOR FIDO?
- The Carol Moss Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $206,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FENCES FOR FIDO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Fences for Fido →
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 31 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