Minnesota · Nonprofit
PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY
PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,912 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($452,717). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Paws and Claws Inc Dba Paws and Claws Humane Society does
Mission
The paws & claws mission is to: promote and provide humane protection and shelter for abandoned or lost companion animals; seek adoptive homes for companion animals under our protective care; provide public education regarding the societal problem of animal overpopulation; promote the principles of responsible companion animal care; and, advocate the spaying and neutering of all companion animals. Paws & claws does not euthanize except on the advice of a veterinarian in the case of critical injury, terminal illness, debilitating pain, or severe behavioral problems in which the animal is a danger to themselves, other animals or humans. Paws & claws will be the animal shelter of choice in southeast minnesota by being the acknowledged leader in the rescue and care of abandoned animals; enhancing the quality of life for individuals and families through the adoption of companion animals; providing health and animal care education; partnering with the community; and providing ease of access.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Paws and claws provides food, shelter and veterinarian care for lost, abandoned, and unwanted animals in olmsted county and surrounding communities. Services include adoption placement for matching lost and found animals, including a service for owners to find new homes for animals they can no longer maintain. For the fiscal year ended july 31, 2025, 933 cats and 833 dogs were adopted. The shelter operates at capacity with an average of 240 animals in our care each month.
$1,286,362 spent$452,377 earned by the program99% of program spendingPublic information and education is provided via social media, a quarterly newsletter, monthly adoption booths at local businesses, presentations at schools, weekly public information segment on local tv, giving tours at our shelter to people of all ages, and at fund-raising events which are open to the public. Educational packets and handouts are provided to adopters and the public. A community assistance neuter/spay program is also available.
$7,879 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,294,241.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.9M to $7.8M (+32%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% 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.
Board chair
Andrea Kilen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $64k → $129k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY’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
PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 56% · 2019 39% · 2020 75% · 2021 65% · 2022 69% · 2023 59% — broadly stable.
“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 PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY?
- PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,912 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($452,717). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,051,912 in grants to PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $452,717 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY 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 30 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