Maine · Nonprofit
RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS
RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,473 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($47,042). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $345k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $743k
What Rescue Charlies Friends does
Mission
Rescue Charlies Friends mission is to prevent cruelty to animals by rescuing dogs that are abandoned, abused, neglected or about to be euthanized. These are Charlies Friends and these are the dogs we focus on. Our mission is to rescue them and provide food, housing, Foster care and veterinary care in their home state, transport them to Maine and again provide food, housing, Foster and veterinary care. All the dogs are matched with carefully screened families who adopt them into their loving, caring homes. Our mascot, Charlie, is himself a rescue dog.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ADOPTIONS: During 2025 over 455 dogs were rescued. They were provided with food, housing foster and veterinary care while in the southern state of Alabama or Texas. After receiving appropiate vaccinations and a certificate of health, they were transported to Maine. In Maine they were again provided with food, housing foster and veterinary care. The dogs were then matched with families who adopted them. All of the dogs were adopted in Maine. All dogs adopted through Rescue Charlie's Friends are spayed and neutered and have received all age appropiate vaccinations.
$344,261 spent$203,836 earned by the program92% of program spendingCLINIC: We established the clinic to provide spay, neuter, small surgery and vaccines services for our incoming dogs from Alabama and Texas. Additionally, we provide the community with education on appropriate pet care and offer low-cost services. We perform spay and neuter procedures for cats and utilize state vouchers to help reduce the cat population. All animals served by the clinic also receive necessary vaccinations
$31,904 spent$13,514 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $376,165.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $66k to $524k (+688%).
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.
33% of RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $14k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS’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
RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
85% 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 RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2021 59% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% — 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
85% of RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Maine, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS has grown faster than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS: 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 RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS?
- RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,473 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($47,042). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $83,473 in grants to RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $47,042 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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