Colorado · Nonprofit
National Mill Dog Rescue
National Mill Dog Rescue (Colorado) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,699,332 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,424,353). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What National Mill Dog Rescue does
Mission
to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home discarded breeding dogs and to educate the general public about the cruel realities of the commercial dog breeding industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Daily care and short- and long-term rehabilitation. Our rescued dogs are exercised, fed, bathed and groomed and the kennel is kept extraordinarily clean on a daily basis. Our dogs receive daily attention and encouragement from dozens of volunteers. Every dog's progress is documented, approximately 80 percent are ready to move on to adoptive homes in under 8-12 weeks in some cases our dogs are adopted as quickly as 1-2 weeks after they arrive at our facility. About 20 percent of our dogs suffer deeper physical and emotional issues from their years in breeding facilities. Nurturing them often takes many months. We have a structured rehabilitation program that includes initial evaluation, assignment of rehabilitation team members to dogs in the program and individualized care plans that include reasonable goals and documenting progress on a regular basis. Only rehabilitation team members handle dogs in the program to ensure continuity of care. Some dogs need weeks before they will approach an outstretched hand or permit a gentle touch. Our team persists, allowing our dogs the time needed to become comfortable with human interaction. We are deeply committed to these dogs and our…
$1,074,506 spent31% of program spendingOur veterinary care program incurs our highest expense and is an area of pride for the organization. Our outstanding in-house team consists of a medical director and two staff veterinarians. Together they provide full time care for the dogs five days per week and on weekends as needed. Because of the horrific conditions often seen in the dogs we rescue, our veterinary team members are expert in intricate and extensive surgical and dental procedures. They take immaculate care of our dogs with a focus on pain management and preparing dogs for adoption. Every dog we take in is vaccinated, heartworm tested, spayed/neutered, microchipped and dewormed. Other conditions dealt with frequently include: pyometra, injured and infected eyes, ears scarred from prolonged untreated infections, parasite infestation, leg and foot deformities, blindness, deafness, hernias, mammary tumors, other cancers, decayed and infected teeth and severe gum disease. We also work with specialists for treatment of the most severely ill and injured dogs or those with conditions that require specialized diagnostic tests and surgical procedures.
$1,009,475 spent29% of program spendingOur nonprofit dog rescue operates a kennel facility where we provide shelter, care, and rehabilitation for dogs in need. Our dedicated staff ensures that each dog receives the necessary medical attention, socialization, and training to prepare them for adoption into loving homes. We have two locations located in CO and newly established facility in MO.
$586,030 spent17% of program spendingOutreach and Education involves spreading awareness about animal rescue and providing information about the NMDR mission. The goal is to facilitate successful dog adoptions and educating the public about the cruel realities of the commercial dog breading industry. NMDR has a dedicated team available to participate in community events, offsite outreach gatherings and shelter events and tours.
$351,984 spent10% of program spendingOur rescue program is dedicated to rescuing dogs from commercial breeding facilities and providing safe transport back to our facilities. We work tirelessly to rescue dogs from high-risk situations and provide them with proper medical care, socialization, and training. With your support, we can continue to make a difference in the lives of these deserving animals. Team members recieve special training to complete this part of our mission.
$218,176 spent6% of program spendingOur adoption and foster care program. These programs are managed by paid staff, including a manager of adoption programs, foster care coordinator and adoptions counselor. At the end of the year, we had 46 foster caregivers registered. Each caregiver is thoroughly trained and constantly supported. The average length of stay for a dog in foster care is 197 days. These dogs may be highly fearful and require time to adjust to normal lives or may need time for recovery from surgery or other veterinary procedures before being made available for adoption. Nmdr pays all expenses. Potential adopters of our dogs are carefully screened through a thorough online application that includes questions about lifestyle, expectations, home environment pets past and present, family members and more. This first step helps us determine how likely it is that an applicant could provid an appropriate home for a puppy mill survivor. Potential adopters are sent a video that includes descriptions of behaviors that are common and sometimes difficult in our population of dogs. Applicants participate in a phone interview and photos of fenced yards and gates are requested. If deemed appropriate they are approved…
$185,912 spent5% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,426,083.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.7M to $9.7M (+26%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of National Mill Dog Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 23 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $460k.
20 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 National Mill Dog Rescue’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 funders by total. 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
National Mill Dog Rescue has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 National Mill Dog Rescue.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 32% · 2019 21% · 2020 29% · 2021 58% · 2022 52% · 2023 20% — 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
51% of National Mill Dog Rescue's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
58% of National Mill Dog 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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 26 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
National Mill Dog Rescue runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like National Mill Dog 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Mill Dog 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 National Mill Dog Rescue?
- National Mill Dog Rescue (Colorado) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,699,332 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,424,353). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does National Mill Dog Rescue have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $6,699,332 in grants to National Mill Dog Rescue, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Mill Dog Rescue?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,424,353 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Mill Dog Rescue find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 98 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing