Alabama · Nonprofit
RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES
RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES (Alabama) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,098,498 to it, the largest being WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($800,565). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $517k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $377k
What Ruff Rescuers United for Furbabies does
Mission
The mission of r.u.f.f is yo prommote animal welfare, to the educate the public on spay/neuter, and to act as a safe haven for shelter animals until they can be transferred to other reputable rescue animal organizations for adoption or adopted locally.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our goals are to help to reduce the number of stray, injured, abandoned, and sheltered animals in walker county, promote spray/neuter and humane education, and create a new outlook for the animals in the surronding area.
$163,630 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $163,630.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $49k to $402k (+714%).
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.
99% of RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $53k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES’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 RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 39% — 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
90% of RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES'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 $106k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $992k 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.
Against its field
RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES: 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 RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES?
- RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES (Alabama) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,098,498 to it, the largest being WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($800,565). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,098,498 in grants to RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES?
- WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $800,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUFF RESCUERS UNITED FOR FURBABIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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