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GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC

GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,504 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($37,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$425k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$211k
Net assets
$1.4M
11/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Golden Beginnings Golden Retriever Rescue Inc does

Mission

Golden Beginnings rescues unwanted, neglected, abused, homeless and displaced golden retriever dogs and provides for necessary medical care and other support. We strive to place our dogs into adoptive homes where they will receive a lifetime of love.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In 2025 our 100% volunteer ran rescue saved 189 Golden Retrievers in the Houston, TX area. We provided necessary veterinary medical care and loving foster homes until they were adopted into permanent forever homes.

    $161,200 spent$122,178 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $161,200.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($211k) Expenses 100 ($81k) Net assets 100 ($405k)2021 Revenue 119 ($251k) Expenses 140 ($114k) Net assets 137 ($557k)2022 Revenue 139 ($294k) Expenses 161 ($131k) Net assets 173 ($700k)2023 Revenue 146 ($309k) Expenses 225 ($183k) Net assets 216 ($874k)2024 Revenue 245 ($517k) Expenses 252 ($205k) Net assets 285 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 201 ($425k) Expenses 264 ($214k) Net assets 353 ($1.4M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (201)Expenses (264)Net assets (353)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 2023 to 2024, from $874k to $1.2M (+32%).

$405k
$557k
$700k
$874k
$1.2M
$1.4M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

64% of GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$130k
’20
$137k
’21
$164k
’22
$126k
’23
$312k
’24
$211k
’25
12
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
Listed433344
Joined·+0+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·10010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $22k.

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE 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

GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

65% 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 GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC.

18%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 77% · 2019 68% · 2020 41% · 2021 53% · 2022 42% · 2023 46% — 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

29% of GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

53% of GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE 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 $98k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Texas funders.

WA
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin50% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 19%Fundraising 6%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC?
GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,504 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($37,750). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $210,504 in grants to GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $37,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GOLDEN BEGINNINGS GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing