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Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary

Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,426,239 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($340,196). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$968k
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$2.6M
26/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary does

Mission

To provide a safe and loving home for senior large breed dogs who have been displaced from their homes and/or abandoned for any reason, until they are adopted or to remain at the sanctuary until they pass on.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our 2025 total revenue was $974,372. Our total revenue average over the previous 4 years is $860,886. Our net total assets at the end of 2025 are $2,882,389.Lily's Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary is committed to maintaining a 24-month operating reserve which totals $1,721,722 ($860,886 x 2) to ensure no interruption of our services to the community, either due to economic downturn, unexpected urgent needs, or natural disaster. Both shelters and dog owners throughout the state rely on us for assistance and resources.Funds will support the expansion of our foster program which allows for rescuing more dogs and addressing the additional veterinary expenses for an increased number of dogs in our program.Funds will also support our making necessary improvements to the sanctuary such as a re-configuring one of our current kennels to provide a separate isolation kennel to accommodate dogs who come to us with kennel cough or other communicable diseases, to give them a secure place to recover while keeping our other dogs safe.Lily's Legacy has been fortunate to have the benefit of our Founder and full-time Executive Director, Alice Mayn, who has volunteered her time and expertise since the…

    $681,161 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $681,161.

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 ($334k) Expenses 100 ($293k) Net assets 100 ($501k)2018 Revenue 99 ($331k) Expenses 104 ($305k) Net assets 131 ($658k)2019 Revenue 127 ($424k) Expenses 101 ($296k) Net assets 164 ($823k)2020 Revenue 206 ($690k) Expenses 136 ($398k) Net assets 241 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 223 ($745k) Expenses 138 ($404k) Net assets 267 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 171 ($571k) Expenses 154 ($453k) Net assets 291 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 228 ($762k) Expenses 165 ($485k) Net assets 353 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 418 ($1.4M) Expenses 244 ($716k) Net assets 483 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 290 ($968k) Expenses 295 ($866k) Net assets 511 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (290)Expenses (295)Net assets (511)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $2.8M (+27%).

$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$2.8M
$2.9M
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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

92% of Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’17
$27k
’18
$128k
’19
$292k
’20
$341k
’21
$119k
’22
$277k
’23
$681k
’24
$101k
’25
4.4
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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Listed566777777
Joined·+2+0+1+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·10000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $104k → $248k.

7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

55% 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 Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary.

24%
largest funder
44%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 69% · 2019 47% · 2020 32% · 2021 47% · 2022 32% · 2023 27% — 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

72% of Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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

63% of Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary's grant income comes from California funders.

VT
WA
MI
NY
PA
CA
CO
DE
AZ
FL

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $603k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 16%Fundraising 5%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary?
Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary (California) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,426,239 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($340,196). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,426,239 in grants to Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $340,196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary 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 40 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