Iowa · Nonprofit
HAPPY DOGGO
HAPPY DOGGO (Iowa) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $281,246 to it, the largest being MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($73,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $281k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Happy Doggo does
Mission
The organization will address the global street dog problem through sterilization, vaccination, critical medical care, and re-homing of sick, injured, and abused dogs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cnvr grants: in 2025, Happy Doggo's cnvr (catch, neuter, vaccinate, return) grant program funded the sterilization and vaccination of over 40,000 dogs across southern thailand. In a single year, this prevented an estimated 220,000 puppies from being born and meaningfully reduced the spread of infectious diseases including rabies - one of the leading causes of human death from animal contact globally. Cnvr is recognized by the world health organization and the world society for the protection of animals as the most humane and effective method of managing stray dog populations at scale.
$1,290,522 spentof which $1,227,592 as grants67% of program spendingMedical care and feeding: in 2025, Happy Doggo's medical program in koh samui, thailand provided free veterinary care to over 100 dogs, treating conditions including fractures, cancer, infectious disease, and severe malnutrition. All services were provided at no cost and prioritized stray and community-owned animals with no other access to care. Our feeding program delivered freshly prepared meals to over 1,000 dogs daily, distributed through a community feeder network across koh samui. Controlled feeding plays a critical role in population management: by establishing consistent feeding stations, the program stabilizes where dogs congregate, reducing roaming behavior and the human-animal conflict that most often leads to conflict. In 2024, Happy Doggo committed funding to the construction of tina's hospital, a dedicated animal medical facility in thailand. Architectural design was completed and a building permit was secured. Site preparation work was carried out, including full clearing, leveling of the building site, and construction of a new access road. Construction broke group in april 2026 and is now actively underway.
$639,745 spentof which $508,233 as grants33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,930,267.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $874k to $2.7M (+204%).
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.
99% of HAPPY DOGGO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Niall Harbison
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 HAPPY DOGGO’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
HAPPY DOGGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 HAPPY DOGGO.
“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.
Where its funders are
58% of HAPPY DOGGO'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 $118k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 9 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
HAPPY DOGGO runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HAPPY DOGGO
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HAPPY DOGGO: 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 HAPPY DOGGO?
- HAPPY DOGGO (Iowa) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $281,246 to it, the largest being MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($73,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAPPY DOGGO have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $281,246 in grants to HAPPY DOGGO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAPPY DOGGO?
- MACDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $73,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAPPY DOGGO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 18 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