Minnesota · Nonprofit
HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION
HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,152 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($88,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-1204209
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $0
What Happy Tails Rescue Foundation does
Mission
Happy Tails Rescue Foundation, founded in 2005, is a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization dedicated to rescuing homeless and abandoned animals. By working with committed volunteers, foster homes, and trainers, we are able to rescue dogs and cats providing them with loving temporary care until a well-matched forever home can be found. Cody's heroes is happy tails' military veteran emotional support animal (esa) program. This program is designed to support our military veterans and their emotional needs, as well as our animals by finding a great forever home. This program is free of charge to our veterans and includes the support dog from happy tails.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Animal rescue - Happy Tails Rescue Foundation saves and places animals in forever homes.
Happy tails rescue clinic performs veterinary services on animals being housed by happy tails rescue, and offers low cost spay and neuter services to other animal rescues.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $2.8M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $27k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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 TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 82% · 2021 55% · 2022 79% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.
Organizations like HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION: 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 TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION?
- HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,152 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($88,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $114,152 in grants to HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION?
- PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $88,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAPPY TAILS RESCUE FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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