Connecticut · Nonprofit
FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC
FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 142 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,617,159 to it, the largest being ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 ($2,070,000). 100 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 142
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc does
Mission
Promoting increased independence to men and women who are blind by providing them with highest quality guide dogs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of the fidelco guide dog foundation is to provide safety, increased mobility and greater independence to people who are blind or visually impaired, by breeding and training, highly intelligent german shepherd dogs who are then matched with these clients. The organization does this, without charge, by maintaining a significant scientific breeding program, enhancing the intelligence and stamina of the dogs to enable them to spend up to 10 years providing guidance to clients. The organization is unique in that it provides "in-community" training, which means that clients do not need to travel or spend time away from their homes and places of work in order to be trained. Our highly skilled training staff, each of whom has excelled in a three-year training apprenticeship, travel to the client's community to complete training. The organization also provides annual follow up meetings and a 24/7 health and emergency hot-line. Fidelco provides successor dogs when the natural lifespan of the guide dog comes to its conclusion. The organization maintains a close and collaborative relationship with the international guide dog community, sharing best practices and contributing to…
$3,685,050 spent$73,785 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,685,050.
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 2021 to 2022, from $21M to $16M (−21%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Karen C Tripp
Chief executive officer
Board chair
G Kenneth Bernhard Esq
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $470k → $1.1M.
19 of 142 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 142 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
FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 31% · 2019 19% · 2020 14% · 2021 24% · 2022 17% · 2023 36% — 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
54% of FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $292k on record.
- Department of Defense$292k
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 FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION 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 FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 142 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,617,159 to it, the largest being ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 ($2,070,000). 100 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 142 organizations giving $8,617,159 in grants to FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC, 100 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC?
- ANAHATA FOUNDATION XXXXX5004 is the largest funder on record, with $2,070,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 142 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