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Great Dog Rescue NE Inc

Great Dog Rescue NE Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $504,163 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($250,950). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$504k
Net assets
$649k
12/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Great Dog Rescue NE Inc does

Mission

Rescue and finding homes for homeless dogs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Great dog rescue ne, inc. Is an all volunteer, shelter-less rescue group who rescues homeless dogs from kill shelters and rehome them to good homes by completing a thorough screening of families. We have rescued and rehomed over 19,500 dogs since our incorporation.

    $1,055,520 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,055,520.

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 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($406k)2021 Revenue 80 ($1.4M) Expenses 83 ($1.5M) Net assets 83 ($337k)2022 Revenue 88 ($1.5M) Expenses 85 ($1.5M) Net assets 92 ($371k)2023 Revenue 78 ($1.4M) Expenses 78 ($1.4M) Net assets 88 ($357k)2024 Revenue 83 ($1.5M) Expenses 77 ($1.3M) Net assets 114 ($462k)2025 Revenue 86 ($1.5M) Expenses 75 ($1.3M) Net assets 160 ($649k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (86)Expenses (75)Net assets (160)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 2024 to 2025, from $543k to $1.0M (+86%).

$507k
$429k
$566k
$496k
$543k
$1.0M
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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

43% of Great Dog Rescue NE Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’20
−$69k
’21
$34k
’22
−$14k
’23
$106k
’24
$187k
’25
5.3
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
Listed222222
Joined······
No longer listed······
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $22k.

8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 Great Dog Rescue NE 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

Great Dog Rescue NE Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

95% 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 Great Dog Rescue NE Inc.

50%
largest funder
72%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 74% · 2019 99% · 2020 34% · 2021 32% · 2022 25% · 2023 48% — 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

40% of Great Dog Rescue NE Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

93% of Great Dog Rescue NE 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 $34k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

IL
NY
MA
SD
IN
RI

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $470k 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

Great Dog Rescue NE Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve5.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Great Dog Rescue NE 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

2
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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Great Dog Rescue NE Inc?
Great Dog Rescue NE Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $504,163 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($250,950). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Great Dog Rescue NE Inc have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $504,163 in grants to Great Dog Rescue NE Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Great Dog Rescue NE Inc?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Great Dog Rescue NE Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 21 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