Texas · Nonprofit
INDIE INSTITUTE
INDIE INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,903 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($74,008). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $293k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $172k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Indie Institute does
Mission
we seek to sustainably continue rescuing, helping, and placing dogs who would otherwise be killed by pounds and shelters and whose owners or caretakers have no other options. In 2024, we took in 28 dogs and placed 57 as we work toward a sustainable number of dogs in our care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Indie Institute dba Final Frontier Rescue Project functions as a shield against erosion of the No Kill model of animal sheltering in Austin, Texas. . By rescuing those dogs in danger of being killed, and subject to rescue notification, we help to prevent the return and the normalization of convenience killing in the public shelter. By successfully and safely placing the vast majority of those dogs, we have demonstrated that it is possible.
$217,650 spent$215,439 earned by the program100% of program spendingWe have helped to expand local rescue, training, and animal welfare improvement capacity as people who have developed skills through volunteering and fostering for Final Frontier Rescue Project have gone on to start local businesses catering to a wide range of canine behaviors and needs. We have provided rehabilitation for fearful, abused, and neglected dogs who had no other rescue options. Almost all of our funding comes from individual and small business supporters and is used for veterinary care, boarding, and training, resulting in a 99% live release rate for 2022. In 2022 we took in 97 dogs and placed 76.
$0 spent$8,075 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $217,650.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $22k to $6k (−75%).
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.
79% of INDIE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $20k.
6 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 INDIE INSTITUTE’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
INDIE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 INDIE INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of INDIE INSTITUTE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $172k 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
INDIE INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like INDIE INSTITUTE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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 INDIE INSTITUTE: 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 INDIE INSTITUTE?
- INDIE INSTITUTE (Texas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $171,903 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($74,008). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INDIE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $171,903 in grants to INDIE INSTITUTE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIE INSTITUTE?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $74,008 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIE INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2024), 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