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RESCUE ME TUCSON

RESCUE ME TUCSON (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,889 to it, the largest being John M Simpson Foundation ($65,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$146k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$143k
Net assets
$68k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Rescue Me Tucson does

Mission

Rescue Me Tucson provides resources for pets and their people through its compassionate collaborative-based pet adoption model. Rescue Me Tucson opened their Rescue Me Marana pet adoption center in Sept 2021 to help area shelters and rescues get more animals adopted.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. RURAL OUTREACH: We partnered with several like minded organizations including Valley Humane HARTT New Leash on Live Whiskers & Wishes and Happy Tails TNR and this period helped over 450 dogs cats puppies and kittens who were isolated in a veterinary desert. We provided pet food animal crates blankets and bedding and a variety of medical supplies such as tick & flea treatments to four rural shelters.

    $3,074 spentof which $3,074 as grants$3,074 earned by the program
    3% of program spending
  2. PET ADOPTION CENTER: Our Rescue Me Marana pet adoption center completed its fourth full year of adoptions helping 4 different shelters rescues to adopt their animals. We expanded our activities and took on care of several animals requiring unique medical attention.

    $117,802 spent$25,274 earned by the program
    97% of program spending
  3. EDUCATION: We advised victims who purchased sick puppies from unscrupulous pet stores about Arizonas Puppy Lemon Law which reimburses only the purchase price of the sick pet. While this helps a bit they did not cover any veterinary bills nor did they make up for the trauma these pet owners endured. Through media outreach we helped educate those chossing to buy from a for-profit pet store of the risks associated with the transactions namely that certain for-profit pet stores may put profits ahead of the health and welfare of the mother and her pups. We connected people having to surrender their pets to reputable rescue groups and shelters. We helped people who wanted a pure-bread dog with resource on how to find responsible breeders and others to find low-cost veterinary care spay-neuter services and pet food.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $120,876.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2021 Revenue 91 ($85k) Expenses 336 ($112k) Net assets 57 ($36k)2022 Revenue 144 ($134k) Expenses 339 ($113k) Net assets 90 ($57k)2023 Revenue 138 ($129k) Expenses 370 ($124k) Net assets 97 ($62k)2024 Revenue 161 ($150k) Expenses 443 ($148k) Net assets 100 ($63k)2025 Revenue 156 ($146k) Expenses 422 ($141k) Net assets 107 ($68k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (156)Expenses (422)Net assets (107)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 2020 to 2021, from $63k to $36k (−43%).

$63k
$36k
$57k
$62k
$63k
$69k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

74% of RESCUE ME TUCSON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’20
−$27k
’21
$21k
’22
$5k
’23
$2k
’24
$5k
’25
1.5
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed863343
Joined·+3+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·53001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $25k → $17k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 ME TUCSON’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 ME TUCSON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% 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 ME TUCSON.

45%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 56% · 2022 65% · 2023 59% — 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

40% of RESCUE ME TUCSON'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

RESCUE ME TUCSON draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 6 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
AZ

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

’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

RESCUE ME TUCSON has grown faster than half of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 8%Fundraising 6%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AZ

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Questions and answers

Who funds RESCUE ME TUCSON?
RESCUE ME TUCSON (Arizona) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $142,889 to it, the largest being John M Simpson Foundation ($65,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RESCUE ME TUCSON have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $142,889 in grants to RESCUE ME TUCSON, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RESCUE ME TUCSON?
John M Simpson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RESCUE ME TUCSON 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.

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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing