New Hampshire · Nonprofit
HERO PUPS INC
HERO PUPS INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,163,089 to it, the largest being SWIMMING WITH A MISSION INC ($551,353). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $656k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Hero Pups Inc does
Mission
Hero pups placed 30 support dogs with veterans and first responders, adopted 70 shelter pets to veteran homes, and overhauled our quarantine building. We expanded our animal assisted therapy and recreational therapy options as well as completed our outdoor space. All while training the dogs in our care for our heroes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Place pups with veterans and first responders, chris' hero pets faciliting veterans adopting companion animals from local shelters and first responder comfort dog.
$203,619 spent$656,457 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $203,619.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+32%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2021 46% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of HERO PUPS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 16 funders, grant income rose $8k → $151k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HERO PUPS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
HERO PUPS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 HERO PUPS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 38% · 2022 49% · 2023 56% — 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
40% of HERO PUPS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
68% of HERO PUPS INC's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HERO PUPS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HERO PUPS 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 HERO PUPS 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 HERO PUPS INC?
- HERO PUPS INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,163,089 to it, the largest being SWIMMING WITH A MISSION INC ($551,353). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HERO PUPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,163,089 in grants to HERO PUPS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HERO PUPS INC?
- SWIMMING WITH A MISSION INC is the largest funder on record, with $551,353 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HERO PUPS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing