Indiana · Nonprofit
FIDO INC
FIDO INC (Indiana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $997,173 to it, the largest being Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust ($440,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $637k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $997k
- Net assets
- $260k
What Fido Inc does
Mission
The mission of f. I. D. O., inc. Is to improve the quality of life of outside dogs. F.I.d.o. Offers humane education and direct assistance to help dog owners comply with local dog care ordanances and improve their dog's quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
There were major changes in policy at indianapolis animal care services (iacs), the municipal animal shelter, in 2024 to avoid overcrowding and euthanasia . Iacs did pick up nor take in stray dogs unless they were gravely sick or injured or extremely aggressive. As a result, stray, abandoned, and unwanted dogs were left to run loose on the streets of indianapolis. Further, iacs scheduled owner-surrender appointments as far in the future as 4-5 months. As a result f.I.d.o. Staff and volunteers frequently found stray and abandoned dogs. In addition, fido clients in crisis, due to such factors as impending eviction and jail, had no animal shelter for their dogs with the only alternative to turn them loose on the street. Therefore during the last half of 2024, f.I.d.o. Temporarily housed and found rescue for 66 dogs that would otherwise been left to roam the streets.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Spay/neuter assistance program: fido is one of a few local animal groups working to remove all barriers to spay/neuter by scheduling, transporting, and funding spay/neuter surgeries along with vaccinations. Many of the animals served by fido have never been to a veterinarian and have reproduced multiple previous litters, some ending up in our city shelter or on the streets. Fido requires compliance with spay/neuter to receive all services. In 2024, fido ensured that 1,378 at-risk dogs and cats were altered.
$192,932 spent$1,290 earned by the program36% of program spendingFence program: f.I.d.o. Assists dog owners by constructing or repairing fenced enclosures to free dogs from chains and to provide large secure areas for dogs to exercise freely. Fenced areas are built to enclose exterior doors of the home and to provide easy access for owners to bring their dogs inside their homes. F.I.d.o. Is the only animal welfare group in indianapolis to provide large, secure, fenced enclosures to low-income dog owners. The program provides a humane alternative to dog tethering. F.I.d.o.'s fence program also promotes public safety by keeping dogs securely contained in their own yard. F.I.d.o. Completed 211 fence projects in 2024 to free over 500 dogs from the end of a chain.
$135,874 spent$6,982 earned by the program26% of program spendingPet food pantry program: f.I.d.o. Provides approximately 15,000 pounds of dog and cat food to approximately 500 low-income indianapolis dog/cat owners and community cat caretakers each month. F.I.d.o. Also assists low-income dog/cat owners and community cat caretakers, biweekly, with their basic pet supplies, including flea treatment, inside dog training crates, straw bedding, dog houses, collars, and leashes. In 2024, f.I.d.o. Distributed 172,066 pounds of dog and cat food.
$109,031 spent$51,270 earned by the program20% of program spendingOutreach program: f.I.d.o. Reaches out to struggling indianapolis neighborhoods with large numbers of outside dogs. F.I.d.o. Drives down streets and alleys to find dogs living outside and offers information on local dog ordinances and provides direct assistance to help their owners comply. F.I.d.o. Also responds to calls from citizens for help with their dogs. F.I.d.o. Provides follow up home visits to ensure progress with dog care is maintained. F.I.d.o. Partners on outreach with indianapolis animal care services officers, the local enforcement agency for animal ordinances. F.I.d.o teams up with a volunteer veterinarian two days each month to provide in-home basic veterinary care for the dogs and cats of clients without funds to pay for veterinary care and transporation to take their pets to a veterinary clinic. In 2024, f.I.d.o. Completed 1,348 home visits.
$94,838 spent$545 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $532,675.
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 2017 to 2018, from $166k to $443k (+167%).
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.
86% of FIDO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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.
Chief executive
Darcie Kurtz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $500 → $164k.
8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FIDO INC’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
FIDO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 FIDO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 42% · 2019 84% · 2020 36% · 2021 77% · 2022 43% · 2023 34% — 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
58% of FIDO 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
84% of FIDO INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FIDO INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FIDO 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIDO 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 FIDO INC?
- FIDO INC (Indiana) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $997,173 to it, the largest being Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust ($440,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIDO INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $997,173 in grants to FIDO INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIDO INC?
- Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIDO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23 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