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PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE

PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE (Arizona) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,990 to it, the largest being BURT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$141k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$365k
Net assets
$4k
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Pima Paws for Life does

Mission

To partner with our community in creating a no-kill Pima County. To find loving homes for every treatable and adoptable animal in our care. To collaborate with other local animal welfare agencies to broaden the safety net for homeless animals in our community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The organization has provided nourishment and medical care to bring to a health level allowing for the adoption of the animals into loving homes.

    $0 spentof which $2 as grants

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($286k) Expenses 100 ($288k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2018 Revenue 122 ($349k) Expenses 119 ($341k) Net assets 206 ($14k)2023 Revenue 36 ($104k) Expenses 46 ($131k) Net assets -153 ($-10717)2024 Revenue 65 ($186k) Expenses 49 ($142k) Net assets 475 ($33k)2025 Revenue 49 ($141k) Expenses 59 ($171k) Net assets 51 ($4k)
20172018202320242025
Revenue (49)Expenses (59)Net assets (51)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 2023 to 2024, from $2k to $36k (+2191%).

$16k
$17k
$2k
$36k
$6k
20172018202320242025
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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$7k
’18
−$27k
’23
$44k
’24
−$30k
’25
0.1
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.

20172018
Listed65
Joined·+3
No longer listed·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $35k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE’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

PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

68%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 62% · 2019 53% · 2020 58% · 2021 60% · 2022 59% · 2023 71% — 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

30% of PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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

PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 6 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
NY
VA
AZ

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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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 PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE?
PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE (Arizona) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $364,990 to it, the largest being BURT FOUNDATION ($250,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $364,990 in grants to PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE?
BURT FOUNDATION 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 PIMA PAWS FOR LIFE 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 13 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