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PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC

PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,511 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($29,585). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$148k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$32k
Grants received
$121k
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC's revenue grew 34% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,424 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2018 Revenue 159 ($175k) Expenses 152 ($134k) Net assets 209 ($80k)2019 Revenue 126 ($139k) Expenses 161 ($142k) Net assets 202 ($77k)2020 Revenue 133 ($147k) Expenses 138 ($121k) Net assets 270 ($103k)2021 Revenue 156 ($172k) Expenses 170 ($149k) Net assets 332 ($126k)2022 Revenue 176 ($195k) Expenses 182 ($160k) Net assets 425 ($162k)2023 Revenue 171 ($189k) Expenses 223 ($196k) Net assets 406 ($154k)2024 Revenue 134 ($148k) Expenses 206 ($181k) Net assets 319 ($121k)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (206)Net assets (319)Peer revenue range

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

100% of PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
17
$42k
18
$3k
19
$26k
20
$23k
21
$35k
22
$7k
23
$33k
24
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $388.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
2
2
2
3
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)98% 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 UP 4 RESCUE INC’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 UP 4 RESCUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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

98% 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 UP 4 RESCUE INC.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 99% · 2020 97% · 2021 95% · 2022 90% · 2023 100%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

98% of PAWS UP 4 RESCUE 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 $540 that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.

WA
IL

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

19
22
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC: 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 UP 4 RESCUE INC?
PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,511 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($29,585). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,511 in grants to PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC?
Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $29,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAWS UP 4 RESCUE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing