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Ohio · Nonprofit
GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS (Ohio) is funded by 21 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $25,756,157 in grants to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($25,306,564). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,477 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,477 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
16% of GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$5k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $2.9M and 1 in 2017.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 50% · 2024 52% · 2025 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
24% of GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 24% give in more than one year at all.
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.
GIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS is locally rooted: 99% of its grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 21 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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
76% of spending goes to programs.
40%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21funders 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. view filing