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PAWS & THINK INC

PAWS & THINK INC (Indiana) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,964 to it, the largest being IMPACT 100 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ($66,962). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$317k
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$551k
Net assets
$381k
14/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Paws & Think Inc does

Mission

Animal assisted activities and therapies

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Animal assisted activities and therapies - trained therapy teams visit hospitals, nursing homes, and day care centers. Dogs reduce blood pressure and stress wile increasing healing and happiness. Where specific therapeutic goals are targeted we term this animal assisted therapy

    $86,364 spent$65,737 earned by the program
    53% of program spending
  2. Reading improvement programs - volunteers visit schools and libraries where students read to the dogs. Studies have shown this is an effective tool in helping children gain confidence in reading. Programs with specific outcomes are poerated in schools to support reading at grade level by third grade

    $13,644 spent$10,065 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  3. Youth canine program - engages students who benefit from alternative teaching methods. Students train selected shelter dogs ver a period of time. Students train selected shelter dogs over a period of time. Students develop appreciation of positive reinformcement and empathy while dogs become more adoptable and spend less time in the shelter.

    $44,091 spent
    27% of program spending
  4. Other

    $19,858 spent
    12% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $163,957.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($154k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($146k)2018 Revenue 108 ($167k) Expenses 114 ($137k) Net assets 121 ($176k)2019 Revenue 147 ($226k) Expenses 148 ($177k) Net assets 154 ($224k)2020 Revenue 155 ($239k) Expenses 152 ($182k) Net assets 193 ($282k)2021 Revenue 207 ($318k) Expenses 176 ($211k) Net assets 267 ($389k)2022 Revenue 183 ($282k) Expenses 209 ($249k) Net assets 290 ($421k)2023 Revenue 144 ($222k) Expenses 250 ($299k) Net assets 236 ($344k)2024 Revenue 206 ($317k) Expenses 235 ($280k) Net assets 262 ($381k)
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Revenue (206)Expenses (235)Net assets (262)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $284k to $390k (+37%).

$147k
$176k
$226k
$284k
$390k
$423k
$345k
$382k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of PAWS & THINK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$30k
’18
$49k
’19
$57k
’20
$107k
’21
$33k
’22
−$77k
’23
$37k
’24
16
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed666488
Joined·+0+3+2+7+0
No longer listed·03430
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $2k → $35k.

10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 & THINK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

PAWS & THINK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% 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

59% 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 & THINK INC.

12%
largest funder
34%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% — 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

29% of PAWS & THINK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

80% of PAWS & THINK INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.

WI
NY
IN
OH
CA
MO
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PAWS & THINK INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve15.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like PAWS & THINK 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 Indiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 43%Fundraising 6%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PAWS & THINK INC?
PAWS & THINK INC (Indiana) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,964 to it, the largest being IMPACT 100 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ($66,962). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PAWS & THINK INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $550,964 in grants to PAWS & THINK INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PAWS & THINK INC?
IMPACT 100 GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAWS & THINK INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 33 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