Arizona · Nonprofit
PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC
PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,763 to it, the largest being ROTH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($235,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $613k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $301k
- Net assets
- $472k
What Pawsitive Friendships Inc does
Mission
Helping individuals with special needs achieve their goals through pet therapy and adaptive activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We worked with over 160 specially trained pets and their volunteer handlers and partnered with more than 40 special education schools and adult day programs. We served 2,600+ children and adults throughout Maricopa County and Tucson with a variety of special needs, helping them achieve their individual goals through interactive adaptive activities.
$359,379 spentof which $705 as grants$92,948 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $359,379.
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 2022 to 2023, from $294k to $397k (+35%).
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 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Tosha Tharp-Gaitanis
CEO
Board chair
Rachael Mckinney
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $64k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS 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
PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 94% · 2022 75% · 2023 86% — 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
100% of PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC?
- PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,763 to it, the largest being ROTH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($235,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $300,763 in grants to PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC?
- ROTH FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWSITIVE FRIENDSHIPS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 10 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