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Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc

Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,866 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($58,462). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$230k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$132k
Net assets
$617k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc does

Mission

The primary mission is to build and operate a privately run, no-kill shelter in Stokes County, North Carolina. The shelter will provide room for appoximately 20 dogs and 20 cats. It will include a separate quarantine area and a separate room for public interaction with the animals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Raise public funds to build the initial animal shelter. After 7 years of work, the building was completed at the end of 2019. We raised over $450,000. No government funds were received. It has been named the FOSS Animal Adoption Center. It opened for adoptions in February 2020.

  2. Operate the animal shelter - care for and adopt all animals.

    $165,054 spent$42,500 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $165,054.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($52k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($406k)2019 Revenue 116 ($61k) Expenses 208 ($4k) Net assets 114 ($463k)2020 Revenue 349 ($182k) Expenses 3738 ($75k) Net assets 140 ($570k)2021 Revenue 234 ($122k) Expenses 4785 ($96k) Net assets 147 ($597k)2022 Revenue 242 ($126k) Expenses 5569 ($112k) Net assets 150 ($611k)2023 Revenue 276 ($144k) Expenses 7305 ($146k) Net assets 150 ($609k)2024 Revenue 388 ($203k) Expenses 9130 ($183k) Net assets 155 ($630k)2025 Revenue 440 ($230k) Expenses 10821 ($217k) Net assets 152 ($617k)
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Revenue (440)Expenses (10821)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $463k to $570k (+23%).

$406k
$463k
$570k
$597k
$611k
$609k
$630k
$617k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 28% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$50k
’18
$56k
’19
$108k
’20
$26k
’21
$15k
’22
−$2k
’23
$20k
’24
$13k
’25
8.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202020212022202320242025
Listed996999
Joined·+2+1+6+1+2
No longer listed·24312
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $17k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Stokes County Shelter Inc’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 Stokes County Shelter Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 Stokes County Shelter Inc.

44%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 78% · 2022 61% · 2023 82% — 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

50% of Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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

60% of Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc'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 $53k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.

MO
MD
NC

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

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’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · below the median
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited 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

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc?
Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,866 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($58,462). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $131,866 in grants to Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $58,462 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of the Stokes County Shelter Inc 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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