Missouri · Nonprofit
PAWS & PALS
PAWS & PALS (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,324 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($232,824). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $382k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $318k
- Net assets
- $-75658
What Paws & Pals does
Mission
We use animal assisted therapy to help children and teens struggling with mental health issues find hope and healing for their futures. We offer individual therapy, group therapy, play therapy and sel programing to youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
P.a.w.s (pawsative actions and wellness in schools) is our school based program that involves our social emotional learning curriclum and our therapy dogs. We visit 5 schools weekly and see over 250 youth who are in need of our services and benefit from our k.I.n.d. Programming if needed. K.I.n.d. (kids in need of dogs) therapy is our animal assisted therapy program that offers therapy sessions to 150 plus youth between the ages of 5-18 in our local communities. We offer our services at our facility at 124 s main street, independence, mo 64050.
$354,898 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $354,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $6k to $31k (+402%).
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 61% · 2024 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PAWS & PALS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income held at $30k.
From the IRS filings of PAWS & PALS’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 & PALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 & PALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 83% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of PAWS & PALS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 & PALS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PAWS & PALS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAWS & PALS: 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 PAWS & PALS?
- PAWS & PALS (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,324 to it, the largest being JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND ($232,824). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWS & PALS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $318,324 in grants to PAWS & PALS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWS & PALS?
- JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUND is the largest funder on record, with $232,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWS & PALS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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