Florida · Nonprofit
HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN
HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN (Florida) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438,772 to it, the largest being THE JOANNE W GAUNTT FOUNDATION DATED ($341,500). 20 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 FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Helping Animals Live & Overcome In does
Mission
Helping animals live and overcome (h.a.l.o.) provides a no-kill safe haven where extraordinary measures are taken to save homeless pets and protect them from abuse and neglect. We continually refine our programs to maintain a 98% save rate. H.a.l.o. Believes in engaging our community by providing resources, education, and programs to do the same. Our vision is to create a world with no more homeless pets.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2005 the indian river county euthanasia rate was over 50%. The first year, 225 lives were saved and the irs paperwork was filed with a prayer. In 2006, h.a.l.o. Received its nonprofit status. The next few years were about rescuing more lives, survival, and doing massive shelter improvements as money would allow. In 2010 partnerships were established with petco & petsmart to increase adoptions and we acquired an acre of land to create a field for the dogs. In 2012 we celebrated 5,000 adoptions and introduced our first program, the oops program, providing low cost spay/neuter vouchers to the community. In 2014 we opened a second adoption center, focused on cats, and in 2015 opened a thrift store. For the next few years more programs were created to address needs within the community, the angel medical program, angel wings adoption program, working barn cat program, canine good citizen ready program, fresh start program, and ambassador foster program. We also began adding additional roles to increase our administrative support and brought on our first director of operations, director of development, and director of volunteer and community relations. In 2019 our focus shifted back…
$1,340,586 spent95% of program spendingThe angel medical program was created to help provide all life-saving services needed to give homeless pets surrendered to h.a.l.o. A second chance at life. Without the angel medical program, h.a.l.o. Would not be able to continue the extraordinary commitment to save each and every life. Our angel medical program is the major program behind our 98% save rate. Expenses 58,805 (taken directly from financials)
$21,408 spent2% of program spendingAs a no-kill rescue shelter, h.a.l.o. Often ends up with extremely difficult cases where dogs are simply not adoptable due to untrusting and aggressive behaviors. We hit a problem...we were filling up with these "misfits". The solution...the fresh start program where h.a.l.o. Trainers and handlers each champion a misfit to work extensively through pack work, positive muzzle training, and behavioral modification with a heavy emphasis on exposure. Each trainer is allowed to determine when a misfit is ready to be put up for adoption and each potential adopter must go through training sessions with the dog in order to form a bond before taking them home. In just one year, dogs that had been st h.a.l.o. For years started forming bonds with dedicated families and started going into their fur-ever homes our future enrichment center/pet support center will give us the additional space needed for behavior care for people to have solutions to keep their pets when able.
3rd ambassador foster program. This program was initiated in an effort to get more dogs and cats out of the shelter and into stress-free environment while waiting for forever homes. Each foster family is provided with the necessary training by h.a.l.o. Staff as well as supplies and a care package. It allows each anilmal to become accustomed to living in a home, receive one-on-one training from there foster family which greatly increases their sdoption potential, and allows the shelter to save more lives. Since intiating the program h.a.l.o. Has 140 active families providing critical life saving care our future enrichment center/pet support center will give us the additional space needed to provide the training needed for foster families and grow our foster base. 4th other program services. For the last 15 years h.a.l.o.'s mission has been centrally focused on creating a safe-haven that maintains a 98% save rate and in seeing our county rise from a 50% save rate in 2006 to a 90% save rate in 2022. In focusing on the future of no-kill rescue, our focus is on re-inventing what no-kill rescue is currently and what it can be. Now is the perfect time for h.a.l.o. To expand beyond the…
$44,162 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,406,156.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $236k to $883k (+274%).
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.
97% of HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN’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. 3 of the last 8 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 14 funders, grant income rose $9k → $195k.
12 of 33 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 HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 47% · 2019 37% · 2020 26% · 2021 33% · 2022 28% · 2023 31% — 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
32% of HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
58% of HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN'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 $603k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $835k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN?
- HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN (Florida) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438,772 to it, the largest being THE JOANNE W GAUNTT FOUNDATION DATED ($341,500). 20 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 HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,438,772 in grants to HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN?
- THE JOANNE W GAUNTT FOUNDATION DATED is the largest funder on record, with $341,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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