Arkansas · Nonprofit
GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY
GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY (Arkansas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,598 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($174,681). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,424 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,424 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- BISSELL Pet Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Pets for the Elderly Foundationshared funders
- Animal Resource Foundation of Iowa Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 0% · 2020 11% · 2021 13% · 2022 4% · 2023 8% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $21k → $66k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 18 funders by total. 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
GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 58% · 2019 87% · 2020 85% · 2021 43% · 2022 45% · 2023 36% — 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
57% of GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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. 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
50% of GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY'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 $199k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Arkansas, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- BISSELL Pet Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 186 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pets for the Elderly Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Animal Resource Foundation of Iowa Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Two Seven Oh Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Federation of Humane Organizationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends For Pets Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George F and Helen M Hirschmann Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Two Mauds Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- FixGeorgiaPets Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Petsmart Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Banfield Foundationshared fundersWA · backs 146 organizations that share your funders
- Orphan Kitten Club Incshared fundersCA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
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 GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY?
- GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY (Arkansas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,598 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($174,681). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $402,598 in grants to GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY?
- ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $174,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD SHEPHERD HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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