California · Nonprofit
Little Trooper Ranch
Little Trooper Ranch (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,961 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $66k
What Little Trooper Ranch does
Mission
Foster and perpetuate unconditional love to animals
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We are a passionate team dedicated to animals and the humans who will love them We primarily represent dogs, with a focus on the ones who are least likely to be seen Our Main Goal is to find loving homes that are best suited for the animals in our care. In 2025 we adopted out 44 dogs. We had 8 spay-neuter clinics during the year for dogs/puppies in our care. We rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home dogs from the streets and high-kill shelters. We take extreme medical cases that require expensive procedures and hospitalizations. We host approximately 6 adoption events per year and have Petfinder and Adopt-A-Pet to thank for most of our adoptions.
$85,078 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,078.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $33k to $66k (+101%).
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 Little Trooper Ranch’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $17k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Little Trooper Ranch’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
Little Trooper Ranch leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 Little Trooper Ranch.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 72% · 2023 88% — 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
66% of Little Trooper Ranch'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Little Trooper Ranch runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Little Trooper Ranch
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.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Little Trooper Ranch: 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 Little Trooper Ranch?
- Little Trooper Ranch (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,961 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($45,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Little Trooper Ranch have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $68,961 in grants to Little Trooper Ranch, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Little Trooper Ranch?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Little Trooper Ranch 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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