Tennessee · Nonprofit
OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC
OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,872,556 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($977,418). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 113
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Old Friends Senior Dogs Inc does
Mission
To 1) provide a loving home, good food, high quality vet care, compassion and comfort to senior dogs for the remainder of their lives, 2) build a forever foster home network to enable placement of senior dogs in loving, home settings for the duration of their lives, 3) provide education on the joys and challenges of caring for aging dogs, and 4) work with other dog rescue groups to promote the adoption of senior dogs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Care for senior dogs: provides care for senior dogs by providing a forever home at the organization's facility, by identifying and placing dogs in forever foster homes, or by arranging care at a boarding facility. The organization covers the cost of veterinary care and other basic needs for all dogs in the program.
$5,555,466 spent99% of program spendingProduct sales: offers a selection of products for sale, including logo items, which educate the public about the care of senior dogs.
$73,172 spent$19,493 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,628,638.
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 2018 to 2019, from $8.4M to $23M (+177%).
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: 2023 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Mirena Cissell
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $190k → $615k.
12 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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
OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
77% 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 OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 38% · 2019 21% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2022 21% · 2023 59% — 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
19% of OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
76% of OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC'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 $677k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC?
- OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,872,556 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($977,418). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC have?
- IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $2,872,556 in grants to OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $977,418 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLD FRIENDS SENIOR DOGS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 113 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