Connecticut · Nonprofit
LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC
LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,184,604 to it, the largest being KIRMAR FOUNDATION ($903,075). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLPshared funders
- Marion and Richard Graham Foundationportfolio match
- Booboo Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $221k → $181k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LUCKY DOG REFUGE 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
LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2021 75% · 2022 90% · 2023 66% — 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
50% of LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 29% 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
LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLPshared fundersNY · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Marion and Richard Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Booboo Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jason Debus Heigl Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Two Pups Wellness Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fishlinger Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Max Goldenson Foundation for Modern Dog Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope for Pawsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lucille Atwell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caring Songs for All Creatures Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jayzum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC?
- LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,184,604 to it, the largest being KIRMAR FOUNDATION ($903,075). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,184,604 in grants to LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC?
- KIRMAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $903,075 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUCKY DOG REFUGE INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing