California · Nonprofit
LABRADOR RESCUERS
LABRADOR RESCUERS (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,629 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,350). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $498k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $674k
What Labrador Rescuers does
Mission
100% volunteer-based nonprofit, established in 2004 to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home stray, abandoned, and unwanted Labrador Retrievers and Lab mixes, including shelter dogs and dogs relinquished by their owners because of age, health, financial or other reasons. The organization is known for rescuing senior dogs and dogs who have medical, surgical, and other special needs that shelters, other rescues or owners are unable or unwilling to address. The organization provides for those needs with the goal of making it possible for every dog to be adopted into a loving forever home. The organization has saved over 5,775 dogs since its formation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, the organization rescued 194 dogs, including 34 senior dogs and multiple dogs who required major medical care, and found forever homes for 181 dogs, including 34 senior dogs. The organization also provided loving care in permanent foster homes for 7 Lifeboat Labs, which are dogs whose medical conditions and/or age made it difficult for them to find adoptive homes.
$319,484 spent$106,163 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $319,484.
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 $523k to $711k (+36%).
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.
78% of LABRADOR RESCUERS’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. 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 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $12k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 LABRADOR RESCUERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 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
LABRADOR RESCUERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 LABRADOR RESCUERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 98% · 2019 53% · 2020 70% · 2021 48% · 2022 59% · 2023 60% — 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
18% of LABRADOR RESCUERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 LABRADOR RESCUERS'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 $43k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside California, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LABRADOR RESCUERS 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 LABRADOR RESCUERS
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 California
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
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LABRADOR RESCUERS: 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 LABRADOR RESCUERS?
- LABRADOR RESCUERS (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,629 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,350). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LABRADOR RESCUERS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $136,629 in grants to LABRADOR RESCUERS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LABRADOR RESCUERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LABRADOR RESCUERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 19 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