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HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC

HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,658,167 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,711,304). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
65
Grants received
$5.7M
Net assets
$1.7M
31/65 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Homeward Trails Animal Rescue Inc does

Mission

Animal rescue and placement

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Homeward trails rescued 2,423 animals in 2025. They were provided with spay/neuter and medical support, foster and adoptive homes and behavioral support.

    $2,603,166 spent$550,220 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,603,166.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($222k)2018 Revenue 113 ($1.7M) Expenses 107 ($1.5M) Net assets 194 ($432k)2019 Revenue 125 ($1.9M) Expenses 130 ($1.8M) Net assets 225 ($501k)2020 Revenue 174 ($2.6M) Expenses 154 ($2.1M) Net assets 436 ($971k)2021 Revenue 171 ($2.6M) Expenses 173 ($2.4M) Net assets 509 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 191 ($2.9M) Expenses 196 ($2.7M) Net assets 571 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 262 ($3.9M) Expenses 207 ($2.9M) Net assets 1049 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 179 ($2.7M) Expenses 213 ($3.0M) Net assets 926 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 176 ($2.6M) Expenses 215 ($3.0M) Net assets 768 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (176)Expenses (215)Net assets (768)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $2.4M (+81%).

$330k
$455k
$512k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$2.4M
$2.1M
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$111k
’17
$209k
’18
$69k
’19
$470k
’20
$161k
’21
$139k
’22
$1.1M
’23
−$273k
’24
−$352k
’25
3.2
months of
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

Sue Bell

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed569898555
Joined·+2+4+1+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·11201300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $313k → $924k.

13 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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

HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC.

66%
largest funder
74%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 55% · 2019 64% · 2020 80% · 2021 73% · 2022 68% · 2023 68% — 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.

How long its funders stay

27% of HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 21 states in all.

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $624k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • 2581 Winchester Road LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC?
HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,658,167 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($3,711,304). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC have?
IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $5,658,167 in grants to HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC?
MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,711,304 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 65 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