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GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE

GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,445 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($201,545). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$161k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$257k
Net assets
$293k
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Great Tails Animal Rescue does

Mission

Great Tails Animal Rescue is dedicated to providing temporary and veterinary care for both stray, abandoned, and surrendered animals of itacsa county, minnesota and surrounding areas, with the purpose of finding loving, permanent homes.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2024, the organization took in 262 animals, including birds, cats, dogs, ferrets, guinea pigs, hedgehogs, rabbits and rats. Throughout the year, 262 animals were adopted.

    $84,876 spentof which $2,700 as grants$56,660 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $84,876.

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 ($3k) Expenses 100 ($1k) Net assets 100 ($1k)2022 Revenue 5845 ($162k) Expenses 6211 ($84k) Net assets 12553 ($177k)2023 Revenue 6953 ($192k) Expenses 10487 ($143k) Net assets 16204 ($228k)2024 Revenue 5826 ($161k) Expenses 6862 ($93k) Net assets 20835 ($293k)
2018202220232024
Revenue (5826)Expenses (6862)Net assets (20835)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 $232k to $340k (+47%).

$1k
$185k
$232k
$340k
2018202220232024
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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

52% of GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’18
$77k
’22
$50k
’23
$68k
’24
44
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.

2018202220232024
Listed2685
Joined··+2+0
No longer listed··03
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $29k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE’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 TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE.

78%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 77% · 2022 63% · 2023 80% — 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 GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

85% of GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE'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 $38k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states.

MN
NY
MO
TX
FL

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve43.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)97% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE?
GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $257,445 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($201,545). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $257,445 in grants to GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE?
GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $201,545 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT TAILS ANIMAL RESCUE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 12 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