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FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER

FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,897 to it, the largest being PETCO LOVE FKA THE PETCO FOUNDATION ($23,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$392k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$43k
Grants received
$618k
Net assets
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,307 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve10.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,307 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($55k) Expenses 100 ($60k) Net assets 100 ($285k)2020 Revenue 583 ($319k) Expenses 465 ($280k) Net assets 106 ($301k)2021 Revenue 795 ($435k) Expenses 615 ($371k) Net assets 148 ($421k)2022 Revenue 863 ($472k) Expenses 653 ($394k) Net assets 175 ($499k)2023 Revenue 584 ($320k) Expenses 502 ($303k) Net assets 181 ($516k)2024 Revenue 558 ($306k) Expenses 455 ($274k) Net assets 192 ($548k)2025 Revenue 716 ($392k) Expenses 534 ($322k) Net assets 217 ($618k)
2017202020212022202320242025
Revenue (716)Expenses (534)Net assets (217)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
17
$39k
20
$65k
21
$79k
22
$17k
23
$31k
24
$70k
25
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)35% 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 FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER’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

FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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

90% 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 FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER.

55%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.

MI
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER

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 Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 16%Fundraising 3%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER: 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 FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER?
FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,897 to it, the largest being PETCO LOVE FKA THE PETCO FOUNDATION ($23,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,897 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER?
PETCO LOVE FKA THE PETCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders 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