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MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER

MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,512 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($51,704). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$486k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$93k
Net assets
$181k
2/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Marshmallow Animal Shelter does

Mission

The Marshmallow Animal Shelter provides programs and services that aid animals and benefit the animal/human partnership.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization operates as a city pound for stray and homeless cats and dogs in detroit lakes and the surrounding communities. It also serves as a shelter and adoption agency for stray and homeless animals by providing them with food and medical care until they are healthy enough to be adopted. During 2025, approximately 285 animals were cared for by the organization.

    $190,747 spent$46,538 earned by the program
    46% of program spending
  2. Provided animal boarding and kenneling services. The organization had over 2,400 bookings during the year.

    $225,691 spent$209,539 earned by the program
    54% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $416,438.

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 ($179k) Expenses 100 ($175k) Net assets -24 ($-17014)2019 Revenue 129 ($232k) Expenses 77 ($135k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2020 Revenue 64 ($115k) Expenses 78 ($136k) Net assets 72 ($51k)2021 Revenue 74 ($132k) Expenses 94 ($164k) Net assets 27 ($19k)2022 Revenue 96 ($172k) Expenses 111 ($194k) Net assets 25 ($18k)2023 Revenue 90 ($162k) Expenses 107 ($186k) Net assets 8 ($6k)2024 Revenue 256 ($458k) Expenses 183 ($321k) Net assets 219 ($157k)2025 Revenue 271 ($486k) Expenses 269 ($469k) Net assets 254 ($181k)
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Revenue (271)Expenses (269)Net assets (254)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 $29k to $811k (+2678%).

$24k
$115k
$96k
$54k
$55k
$29k
$811k
$778k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

39% of MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$97k
’19
−$20k
’20
−$32k
’21
−$22k
’22
−$24k
’23
$138k
’24
$17k
’25
2.8
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.

2019202220242025
Listed4877
Joined···+1
No longer listed···1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $10k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER’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

MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER.

56%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 84% · 2019 86% · 2020 90% · 2021 92% · 2022 87% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.

“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

40% of MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 18% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

91% of MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

ND
MN
MO
TN
DC

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

’18
’19
’20
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER has grown faster than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

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

Organizations like MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER

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 Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER?
MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,512 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($51,704). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $92,512 in grants to MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $51,704 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 11 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