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RUFF HAVEN

RUFF HAVEN (Utah) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,381 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($75,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$279k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$298k
Net assets
$158k
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Ruff Haven does

Mission

The three-fold mission of Ruff Haven Crisis Sheltering is to provide a temporary safe haven for companion animals to keep pets and their people together in times of crisis; increase pet retention, and decrease the number of animals entering the shelter system. We help with crisis situations that include hospitalization, domestic violence, incarceration, rehabilitation, substance abuse treatment, and natural disasters.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The three-fold mission of Ruff Haven Crisis Sheltering is to provide a temporary safe haven for companion animals to keep pets and their people together in times of crisis; increase pet retention, and decrease the number of animals entering the shelter system. We help with crisis situations that include hospitalization, domestic violence, incarceration, rehabilitation, substance abuse treatment, and natural disasters.

    $316,211 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $316,211.

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 ($29k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2021 Revenue 539 ($159k) Expenses 445 ($74k) Net assets 759 ($98k)2022 Revenue 884 ($261k) Expenses 1294 ($215k) Net assets 1116 ($144k)2023 Revenue 3002 ($885k) Expenses 5071 ($842k) Net assets 1796 ($231k)2024 Revenue 946 ($279k) Expenses 2124 ($352k) Net assets 1226 ($158k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (946)Expenses (2124)Net assets (1226)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 2022 to 2023, from $144k to $245k (+70%).

$13k
$98k
$144k
$245k
$180k
20202021202220232024
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 6% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of RUFF HAVEN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’20
$85k
’21
$46k
’22
$44k
’23
−$73k
’24
5.2
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.

Board chair

Guinnevere Shuster

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed51414
Joined·+10+0
No longer listed·10
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $2k → $83k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 RUFF HAVEN’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

RUFF HAVEN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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

93% 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 RUFF HAVEN.

25%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 93% · 2022 37% · 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

38% of RUFF HAVEN's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

RUFF HAVEN draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 6 states in all.

WA
CA
UT
AZ
DC
TX

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

’20
’22
’23
Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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

RUFF HAVEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−26% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)75% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like RUFF HAVEN

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 4%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RUFF HAVEN: 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 RUFF HAVEN?
RUFF HAVEN (Utah) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $298,381 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($75,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RUFF HAVEN have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $298,381 in grants to RUFF HAVEN, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RUFF HAVEN?
PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RUFF HAVEN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 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