North Carolina · Nonprofit
PAWS4PEOPLE
PAWS4PEOPLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,605,068 to it, the largest being SALT WATER FUND ($250,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Paws4people does
Mission
The mission of Paws4people, inc. (the organization") is educating and empowering people to utilize assistance dogs to transform their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization is a nonprofit non-stock corporation incorporated in the commonwealth of virginia on july 6, 1999 with its principal office and operations in wilmington, north carolina. The organization is registered as a foreign corporation in the states of north carolina, west virginia, california, georgia, illinois, and texas, and in the district of columbia. The organization does business as Paws4people, Paws4people foundation, paws4prisons, and paws4vets. The organization raises, trains, and places service dogs and facility dogs, and provides certification, insurance, and support for each client-assistance dog team or handler-facility dog team for the duration of the team's career. The organization specializes in training customized service dogs for two general groups: children and adolescents with physical, neurological, psychiatric, or emotional disabilities; and veterans and service members with chronic/complex post-traumatic stress disorder (c-ptsd), traumatic brain injuries (tbi), and military sexual trauma (mst). The organization also trains, certifies and places facility dogs with specific individuals who will use the facility dog within his/her profession and/or…
$4,200,718 spentof which $9,208 as grants$239,675 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,200,718.
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 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $16M (+22%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 11% · 2019 28% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 36% · 2023 32% · 2024 7% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of PAWS4PEOPLE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 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
Terry L Henry
Chairman & permanent trust
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $24k → $263k.
13 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 PAWS4PEOPLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
PAWS4PEOPLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
55% 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 PAWS4PEOPLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 75% · 2019 47% · 2020 51% · 2021 27% · 2022 27% · 2023 29% — 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
32% of PAWS4PEOPLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
PAWS4PEOPLE draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $459k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
PAWS4PEOPLE has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PAWS4PEOPLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Department of Defense$2.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PAWS4PEOPLE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Innovation Way LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAWS4PEOPLE: 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 PAWS4PEOPLE?
- PAWS4PEOPLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,605,068 to it, the largest being SALT WATER FUND ($250,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWS4PEOPLE have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $1,605,068 in grants to PAWS4PEOPLE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWS4PEOPLE?
- SALT WATER FUND is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWS4PEOPLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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