Tennessee · Nonprofit
REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE
REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,051 to it, the largest being BERNARD & SHIRLEY LAPIDES FOUNDATION ($84,341). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Real Good Dog Rescue does
Mission
Our purpose is rescuing and rehoming homeless abandoned and surrendered pets. We are also helping to vet spay and neuter pets in the community whose owners cannot afford to do this.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our highest expensive is veterinary services for medical services and supplies that require prescription. Last year we took a LOT of medical needs dogs. We saved approx 300 dogs last year and placed in responsible homes. We also helped some community pets whose owners could not afford care
$68,458 spent71% of program spendingOur second highest expense is for food and supplies: dog food dog housing kennels and portable pens beds collars leashes harnesses training supplies. WE spent a lot on boarding last year so I placed it in a separate category this year.
$14,958 spent16% of program spendingOur next highest expense was renting a storage facility and maintenance but this is captured on line14. The next highest expense for last year was boarding.
$2,704 spent3% of program spendingremainder of schedule O expenses
$9,787 spentof which $9,787 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95,907.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $18k to $40k (+119%).
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.
60% of REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $29k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE’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
REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 41% · 2021 67% · 2022 66% · 2023 44% — 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.
Where its funders are
63% of REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k 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
REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE has grown faster than half of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE: 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 REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE?
- REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,051 to it, the largest being BERNARD & SHIRLEY LAPIDES FOUNDATION ($84,341). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $207,051 in grants to REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE?
- BERNARD & SHIRLEY LAPIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $84,341 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL GOOD DOG RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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