Georgia · Nonprofit
HANDS TO PAWS INC
HANDS TO PAWS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,706 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ($127,633). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $171k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Hands to Paws Inc does
Mission
The primary purpose of the organizations expenditures was to rescue rehabilitate sterilize transport and rehome homeless abandoned surrendered and at-risk cats and dogs. Expenses included veterinary care vaccinations spay neuter services food and supplies foster care support transportation and other direct program costs associated with animal welfare adoption and community pet population reduction initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided comprehensive care for 718 rescue animals including veterinary treatment diagnostic testing vaccinations medications preventative health care emergency medical services food and nutritional support shelter and housing and foster care support to ensure the health rehabilitation and well-being of animals in the organizations care. During the year the organization directly admitted 625 animals into its rescue program prepared 358 animals for adoption into permanent homes and transferred 126 animals to partner rescue organizations to expand placement opportunities and improve live outcomes.
$91,262 spent54% of program spendingProvided low-cost and subsidized spay neuter services for rescue animals owned pets community cats and managed feral cat colonies. During 2025 the organization facilitated the sterilization of approximately 640 animals through rescue community assistance and Trap-Neuter-Return TNR programs. Services included rabies vaccinations core vaccines wound and injury treatment for community and feral cats and other essential medical care to protect animal and public health reduce pet overpopulation prevent unwanted litters and improve the welfare of animals throughout the community.
$64,021 spent38% of program spendingLife-saving and quality-of-life emergency veterinary care including surgery hospitalization and treatment of illness or injury for rescue animals.
$12,911 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $168,194.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $14k to $6k (−60%).
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.
80% of HANDS TO PAWS INC’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $47k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 TO PAWS 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
HANDS TO PAWS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 TO PAWS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 99% · 2022 37% · 2023 61% — 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
33% of HANDS TO PAWS INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 31% 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
70% of HANDS TO PAWS 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 $73k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k 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.
Against its field
HANDS TO PAWS INC has grown faster than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HANDS TO PAWS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $67 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $67
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HANDS TO PAWS 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.
In Georgia
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 HANDS TO PAWS INC: 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 TO PAWS INC?
- HANDS TO PAWS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,706 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ($127,633). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HANDS TO PAWS INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $241,706 in grants to HANDS TO PAWS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HANDS TO PAWS INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $127,633 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HANDS TO PAWS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 13 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