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PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC

PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,501 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($53,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$79k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$97k
Net assets
$0
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Phinney's Friends Inc does

Mission

Help low income people care for their pets

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. These services benefited approximately 200 pet owners

    $146,029 spentof which $146,029 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $146,029.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($143k) Expenses 100 ($118k) Net assets 100 ($95k)2022 Revenue 63 ($91k) Expenses 85 ($100k) Net assets 90 ($85k)2023 Revenue 55 ($79k) Expenses 144 ($169k) Net assets 0 ($0)
202120222023
Revenue (55)Expenses (144)Net assets (0)

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 $90k to $0 (−100%).

$102k
$90k
$0
202120222023
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.

2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’21
−$9k
’22
−$90k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $21k → $11k.

4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 PHINNEY'S FRIENDS 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

PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72% 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 PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC.

55%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 51% · 2019 93% · 2020 76% · 2021 49% · 2022 93% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.

“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

40% of PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

72% of PHINNEY'S FRIENDS 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 $27k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PHINNEY'S FRIENDS 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC?
PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,501 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($53,250). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $96,501 in grants to PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $53,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 8 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