Nebraska · Nonprofit
HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS
HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,099 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($47,623). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $130k
What Hands Hearts and Paws does
Mission
Rescue Dogs and find them permanent adoptive homes
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Hands, Hearts and Paws is a Foster Home based dog rescue. Dogs are rescued from kill shelters and placed in a foster home. Our foster homes accommadate dogs with different needs. While in rescue, dogs will receive vaccinations, preventative health care & medication, training and socialization. Every dog goes to their forever home after being microchipped.
$150,634 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $150,634.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $164k to $144k (−12%).
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.
100% of HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $12k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS’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
HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 87% · 2022 73% · 2023 51% — 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
50% of HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
83% of HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS's revenue fell 15% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS
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.
In Nebraska
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS?
- HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS (Nebraska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,099 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($47,623). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $67,099 in grants to HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $47,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS HEARTS AND PAWS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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