Connecticut · Nonprofit
NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION
NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,451 to it, the largest being SQUARE TABLE FOUNDATION ($126,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $211k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Nomadic Guardians Foundation does
Mission
To help slow down and reverse the desertification of the mongolian grassland steppes, and to preserve and protect traditional mongolian culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The mongolian bankhar dog project researches, breeds, and trains mongolian bankhar livestock protection dogs and places these working dogs in homes of nomadic herding families on the mongolian steppe, where the bankhar perform their traditional role of protecting livestock herds (sheep, goat, horse, camel, yak) against largecarnivorous predators including snow leopards, wolves, brown bears, foxes and eagles. Placed 16 dogs with nomadic herders. Bred over 25 dogs to be placed. Found rare dogs and established breeding group of 15 individuals.
$72,019 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,019.
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 2022 to 2023, from $69k to $107k (+55%).
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 NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $76k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION’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
NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 54% · 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.
Where its funders are
NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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.
Against its field
NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION: 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 NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION?
- NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,451 to it, the largest being SQUARE TABLE FOUNDATION ($126,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $211,451 in grants to NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION?
- SQUARE TABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $126,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOMADIC GUARDIANS FOUNDATION 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 4 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