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RETIRED PAWS

RETIRED PAWS (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,863 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($75,955). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$62k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$120k
Net assets
$153k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Retired Paws does

Mission

Provide financial support to help care for retired canines heroes who have dedicated their lives to protecting us.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Our accomplishment was to provide financial support to help care for retired canine heroes who dedicated their lives protecting the public.

    $89,107 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $89,107.

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 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($75k)2018 Revenue 154 ($91k) Expenses 93 ($27k) Net assets 185 ($139k)2019 Revenue 146 ($86k) Expenses 114 ($33k) Net assets 257 ($192k)2020 Revenue 106 ($63k) Expenses 162 ($46k) Net assets 279 ($209k)2021 Revenue 134 ($79k) Expenses 205 ($59k) Net assets 306 ($229k)2022 Revenue 95 ($56k) Expenses 98 ($28k) Net assets 343 ($257k)2023 Revenue 92 ($55k) Expenses 328 ($94k) Net assets 291 ($218k)2024 Revenue 105 ($62k) Expenses 443 ($127k) Net assets 205 ($153k)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (443)Net assets (205)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 $218k to $153k (−30%).

$75k
$139k
$192k
$209k
$229k
$257k
$218k
$153k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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

This organization
Typical peer · 6,580 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’17
$64k
’18
$53k
’19
$17k
’20
$20k
’21
$28k
’22
−$39k
’23
−$64k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $23k → $16k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 RETIRED PAWS’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

RETIRED PAWS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

94% 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 RETIRED PAWS.

63%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 94% · 2023 65% — 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

94% of RETIRED PAWS'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states.

MN
NC

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

’17
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RETIRED PAWS has grown faster than half of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−104% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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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 RETIRED PAWS?
RETIRED PAWS (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,863 to it, the largest being GIVE BACK FOUNDATION ($75,955). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RETIRED PAWS have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $119,863 in grants to RETIRED PAWS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RETIRED PAWS?
GIVE BACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RETIRED PAWS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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