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MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY

MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,614 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($25,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$157k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$56k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Mitten Misfits Farm Sanctuary does

Mission

Care for aging animals

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Built a duck pond finished in 2024

    $865 spent
    1% of program spending
  2. Continued to work on safe fencing options (project to be finished in 2025)

    $1,141 spentof which $10,000 as grants
    1% of program spending
  3. Continued taking in aging animals - had a total of 102 animals in 2024

    $100,640 spentof which $11,000 as grants
    98% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,646.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2022 Revenue 167 ($106k) Expenses 169 ($92k) Net assets 255 ($23k)2023 Revenue 170 ($109k) Expenses 206 ($113k) Net assets 209 ($19k)2024 Revenue 247 ($157k) Expenses 218 ($119k) Net assets 628 ($56k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (247)Expenses (218)Net assets (628)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 $19k to $79k (+322%).

$9k
$23k
$19k
$79k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of MITTEN MISFITS FARM 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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’21
$14k
’22
−$4k
’23
$38k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $4k → $8k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY’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

MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

67% 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 MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY.

51%
largest funder
95%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 72% — 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

67% of MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
MO

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

’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY?
MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY (Michigan) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,614 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($25,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $49,614 in grants to MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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