Maine · Nonprofit
FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE
FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,464 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($16,213). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,983 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,983 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundationshared funders
- Dr Jane's Healthypetnet Foundation Incportfolio match
- Animal Resource Foundation of Iowa Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $95.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE’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
FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 83% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Dr Jane's Healthypetnet Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Animal Resource Foundation of Iowa Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carol and Kent H Landsberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arkansas Animal Rescue Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Binky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- On Shore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All About Spay Neuter Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Anthony & Trissa Napoleon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shelter Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pet Peeves Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Max Goldenson Foundation for Modern Dog Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE?
- FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE (Maine) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,464 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($16,213). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $20,464 in grants to FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE?
- Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $16,213 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR LEGGED FREEDOM RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing