Minnesota · Nonprofit
RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC
RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,559 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($174,839). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $962k
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $797k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Retrieve a Golden of Minnesota (Ragom) Inc does
Mission
Retrieve a golden of the midwest (ragom) rescues, fosters, and rehomes golden retrievers and golden mixes that can no longer remain in their current environments. The organization ensures each dog receives necessary veterinary care and rehabilitation, and works to place them in loving, permanent homes. Ragom also educates the public about responsible dog ownership, promotes the humane treatment of animals, and cooperates with authorities and other organizations to improve the welfare of dogs in need
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fiscal year 2025, ragom rescued 245 dogs requiring care and permanent placement with adoptive families. Each dog was placed with either a foster home or a foster-to-adopt family, where they received care, veterinary services, and the opportunity to be placed with an adoptive family. Ragom rescued 5 international dogs in partnership with other rescue organizations. Ragom has two outreach programs to support families experiencing challenges with their dogs. The first program pays for expensive medical care, allowing the dog to remain with its family as long as ragom determines the family is the best place; the second program provides behavior outreach services, working with families to overcome behavior issues to avoid surrendering a dog. 257 dogs were adopted, and there were 350 volunteers. 235 dogs were altered (137 spayed/98 neutered).
$641,708 spent$180,195 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $641,708.
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 2021 to 2022, from $876k to $1.2M (+33%).
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.
77% of RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Mary Mcgowan
Executive director
Board chair
Elayne Sexsmith
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $66k → $105k.
11 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 39% · 2019 46% · 2020 25% · 2021 33% · 2022 29% · 2023 30% — 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
43% of RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
60% of RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC'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 $320k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $477k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,954 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC?
- RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,559 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($174,839). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $796,559 in grants to RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $174,839 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RETRIEVE A GOLDEN OF MINNESOTA (RAGOM) INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 36 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