Texas · Nonprofit
Fort Bend Paws
Fort Bend Paws (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,590 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $395k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $122k
- Net assets
- $423k
What Fort Bend Paws does
Mission
to provide essential support and raise much-needed donations for the animals at the Fort Bend County Animal Shelter.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Transport - this program allows for dogs and cats that are in the shelter the opportunity to be moved out of texas to partner shelters accross the country by ground or air. Fees include crates, medical expenses and travel related expenses (gas, etc.).
$8,000 spent9% of program spendingPet food - the mission statement for the Fort Bend Paws it to provide items for the shelter and pets not covered under the county budget. In 2025, Fort Bend Paws purchased food for the pets when the county fund could not cover the cost.
$22,000 spent24% of program spendingVarious projects to assist and promote animal well being. The largest in 2025 was an empty shelter project which was lare scale spray and neuter event.
$56,000 spent60% of program spendingOther shelter support operations
$7,539 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,539.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $128k to $423k (+230%).
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.
100% of Fort Bend Paws’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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $27k → $1k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Fort Bend Paws’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
Fort Bend Paws leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 Fort Bend Paws.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 55% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 90% — 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
25% of Fort Bend Paws's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
100% of Fort Bend Paws's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Fort Bend Paws runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Fort Bend Paws
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Fort Bend Paws: 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 Fort Bend Paws?
- Fort Bend Paws (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $121,590 to it, the largest being THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fort Bend Paws have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $121,590 in grants to Fort Bend Paws, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fort Bend Paws?
- THE HENDERSON-WESSENDORFF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fort Bend Paws find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 9 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