Texas · Nonprofit
Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet
Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,395 to it, the largest being MERRILL FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($16,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,809 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,809 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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.
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedshared funders
- Houston Petsetportfolio match
- Combat Veterans Motorcycle Associationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50 → $4k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet’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
Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 48% · 2022 62% · 2023 79% — 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
60% of Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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.
- Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporatedshared fundersPA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Houston Petsetportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Combat Veterans Motorcycle Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caring Songs for All Creatures Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dave Durbano Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Onyx and Breezy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Max Goldenson Foundation for Modern Dog Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Binky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Girtys Place Animal Rescue and Sanctuaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Warrior Initiative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doris Day Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carol and Kent H Landsberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet: 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 Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet?
- Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,395 to it, the largest being MERRILL FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($16,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $33,395 in grants to Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet?
- MERRILL FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Guardian Angels for Soldier's Pet 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 9funders 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