Connecticut · Nonprofit
LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE
LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,126 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($24,322). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $-331642
What Looking Glass Animal Rescue does
Mission
We see beyond the surface. Just as we believe that a person should not be judged by their appearance, we hold that animals should not be judged by their breed or condition. Every creature, regardless of the circumstances, possesses intrinsic worth and beauty. We want people to recognize the unique charm in every animal, especially those who are injured, elderly, or otherwise perceived less than perfect. There are countless animals in need of love and care, and it is our mission to help others see the value in each and every one of them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Pet Fostering and Adoptions: We found loving foster parents to care for animals rescued from shelters until they were adopted and then we placed the animals in loving homes through adoption.
$82,259 spentof which $82,158 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,259.
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 2020 to 2021, from $10k to $253k (+2465%).
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.
100% of LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $6k → $6k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE’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
LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 54% · 2021 55% · 2022 45% · 2023 87% — 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
25% of LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
83% of LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE's revenue fell 57% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE: 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 LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE?
- LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,126 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($24,322). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $68,126 in grants to LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $24,322 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 14 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