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Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County

Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County (Mississippi) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $539,519 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$197k
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$540k
Grants received
$215k
Net assets
8/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

Against its field

Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County is better cushioned than half of the 3,307 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom 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 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($187k) Expenses 100 ($123k) Net assets 100 ($198k)2023 Revenue 80 ($150k) Expenses 178 ($220k) Net assets 65 ($128k)2024 Revenue 128 ($239k) Expenses 114 ($141k) Net assets 115 ($228k)2025 Revenue 106 ($197k) Expenses 186 ($229k) Net assets 109 ($215k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (106)Expenses (186)Net assets (109)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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

101% of Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
22
$70k
23
$98k
24
$32k
25
9.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $55k → $85k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)19% 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 Hancock County’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 Hancock County has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

54% 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 Hancock County.

23%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 100% · 2019 46% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 46% · 2023 35%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

80% of Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 4 states in all.

WA
AZ
MS
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

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 9 funders put you typical 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 Hancock County

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 Mississippi

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MS

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County: 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 Hancock County?
Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County (Mississippi) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $539,519 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($125,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $539,519 in grants to Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County?
LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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