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Lakeshore Paws Inc

Lakeshore Paws Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,667 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($258,127). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$521k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$420k
Net assets
$811k
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Lakeshore Paws Inc does

Mission

To prevent the suffering and cruelty to animals

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To prevent suffering and cruelty to animals by building and operating a non-profit no kill animal shelter and low cost spay/neuter clinic. And reducing the number of homeless animals in NW Indiana through the development of innovative programs, proactive adoptions and targeted spay/neuter programs.

    $497,270 spent$177,310 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $497,270.

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 ($383k) Expenses 100 ($368k) Net assets 100 ($284k)2018 Revenue 109 ($418k) Expenses 103 ($379k) Net assets 114 ($323k)2019 Revenue 123 ($473k) Expenses 111 ($409k) Net assets 136 ($387k)2020 Revenue 233 ($895k) Expenses 124 ($455k) Net assets 291 ($826k)2021 Revenue 123 ($473k) Expenses 137 ($505k) Net assets 279 ($793k)2022 Revenue 127 ($487k) Expenses 140 ($515k) Net assets 269 ($766k)2023 Revenue 170 ($651k) Expenses 158 ($581k) Net assets 294 ($836k)2024 Revenue 118 ($451k) Expenses 138 ($507k) Net assets 283 ($804k)2025 Revenue 136 ($521k) Expenses 145 ($533k) Net assets 285 ($811k)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (145)Net assets (285)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 2019 to 2020, from $612k to $864k (+41%).

$527k
$564k
$612k
$864k
$853k
$842k
$909k
$871k
$829k
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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

47% of Lakeshore Paws Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$39k
’18
$63k
’19
$439k
’20
−$33k
’21
−$28k
’22
$70k
’23
−$56k
’24
−$12k
’25
6.6
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.

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Listed666643444
Joined·+1+1+0+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·11021000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $8k → $67k.

6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Lakeshore Paws Inc’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

Lakeshore Paws Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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 Lakeshore Paws Inc.

62%
largest funder
79%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 69% · 2019 97% · 2020 95% · 2021 74% · 2022 67% · 2023 65% — 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

60% of Lakeshore Paws Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

90% of Lakeshore Paws Inc'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 $44k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 7 states.

WA
IL
IN
NJ
MO
NC
TX

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

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’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $376k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lakeshore Paws Inc is better cushioned than half of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Lakeshore Paws Inc

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
75%
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

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lakeshore Paws Inc?
Lakeshore Paws Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,667 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($258,127). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Lakeshore Paws Inc have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $419,667 in grants to Lakeshore Paws Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lakeshore Paws Inc?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $258,127 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lakeshore Paws Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 16 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