North Carolina · Nonprofit
FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC
FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,142 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($309,956). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $329k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Four Paws and a Wake Up-Nc does
Mission
To provide task skilled service dogs to people with disabilities through an owner-assisted service dog training program and to engage the community through the unique bond between humans and animals with the animal-assisted therapy program
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Four service dogs were in training at the end of the year with the owner-assisted training program. Five owner-assisted training teams have certifed as service dogs. Animal-assisted therapy teams totaled 120 new or renewing certified teams including the re-initiation of the Wilmington-based therapy program.
$128,379 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $128,379.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $33k to $74k (+120%).
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.
98% of FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $84k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC’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 PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 79% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $319k 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
FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC
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 North Carolina
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC: 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 FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC?
- FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,142 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($309,956). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $329,142 in grants to FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $309,956 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUR PAWS AND A WAKE UP-NC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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