Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC
RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,159 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($23,927). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Ruff Life Rescue & Rehabilitation Inc does
Mission
Ruff Life Rescue & Rehabilitation, Inc. is an all-volunteer organization which operates an animal rescue that provides for the needs of homeless animals, including rehabilitation of those deemed unadoptable and face euthanasia and other lawful purposes as defined by the Non-profit Corporation Act of Pennsylvania.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide veterinarian services to dogs and cats in need of medical care. 157 dogs and cats benefited from vet services.
$19,631 spent75% of program spendingSupplies to care for homeless cats and dogs. Includes various supplies such as collars, cat litter, dog and cat food, animal medication, etc. 157 dogs and cats benefited from the acquisition of such supplies.
$5,603 spent22% of program spendingAnimal acquisition - acquired four puppies, 5 dogs, and a pregnant mother dog.
$825 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,059.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $71k to $106k (+50%).
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.
35% of RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC’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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $9k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC’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 LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 88% · 2023 84% — 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
99% of RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $532 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
RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC: 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 LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC?
- RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,159 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($23,927). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $29,159 in grants to RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $23,927 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUFF LIFE RESCUE & REHABILITATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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