North Carolina · Nonprofit
RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND
RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,148 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($3,698). 2 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 FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $132k
What Rescue Ur Forever Friend does
Mission
Rescue Ur Forever Friend (RUFF) improves the quality of life of homeless pets by providing a safe refuge through foster and medical care until their permanent homes are secured. RUFF encourages responsible pet ownership through education, programs and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025 RUFF successfully obtained medical care and found forever homes for 65 dogs. Another 15 animals received medical treatment and are waiting for their forever homes. RUFF provided assistance to the community through its community outreach program providing food, supplies and spay/neuter assistance.
$37,256 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,256.
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.
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 $108k to $133k (+23%).
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.
47% of RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND’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 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $677.
1 of 5 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 RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND’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 UR FOREVER FRIEND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 UR FOREVER FRIEND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 95% · 2020 90% · 2021 78% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 UR FOREVER FRIEND runs a healthier operating margin 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 RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
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 UR FOREVER FRIEND: 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 UR FOREVER FRIEND?
- RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,148 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($3,698). 2 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 RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $5,148 in grants to RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,698 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESCUE UR FOREVER FRIEND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 5 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