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RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY

RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY (Arizona) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,096 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($74,425). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$683k
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$445k
Net assets
$730k
16/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Rusty S Angels Sanctuary does

Mission

Rescue foster and adoption of senior dogs

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. All other contributions, gifts, grants to help support rescuing senior dogs, providing medical care, foster care, and finding adoptive homes for them.

    $488,780 spentof which $2,500 as grants$276,425 earned by the program
    89% of program spending
  2. Fundraising from Sunday Funday, AZGives Day, and Giving Tuesday

    $4,592 spent$130,372 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  3. Rusty's Resale Boutique thrift store operations. The thrift store was opened to helped support our daily operations of Rusty's Angels Sanctuary. All proceeds from the thrift store go directly to providing care to our senior dogs who are either looking for their forever homes or retiring at the Sanctuary.

    $56,867 spent$182,703 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  4. Program Income includes Adoption fees, Boarding fees and Intake fees.

    $0 spent$11,402 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $550,239.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($392k) Expenses 100 ($382k) Net assets 100 ($248k)2020 Revenue 183 ($716k) Expenses 103 ($394k) Net assets 227 ($561k)2021 Revenue 131 ($512k) Expenses 129 ($495k) Net assets 234 ($579k)2022 Revenue 137 ($537k) Expenses 135 ($517k) Net assets 242 ($598k)2023 Revenue 156 ($611k) Expenses 154 ($588k) Net assets 251 ($621k)2024 Revenue 174 ($683k) Expenses 150 ($574k) Net assets 295 ($730k)
201820202021202220232024
Revenue (174)Expenses (150)Net assets (295)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 2020 to 2021, from $599k to $894k (+49%).

$330k
$599k
$894k
$763k
$715k
$733k
201820202021202220232024
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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

63% of RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’18
$322k
’20
$17k
’21
$19k
’22
$23k
’23
$109k
’24
4.4
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.

Chief executive

Emilee Spear

Founding President/Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201820202021202220232024
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Joined··+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $71k → $78k.

7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY’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

RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

73% 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 RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY.

17%
largest funder
44%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 41% · 2019 60% · 2020 37% · 2021 41% · 2022 22% · 2023 32% — 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

46% of RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

54% of RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY'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 $203k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Arizona funders.

NY
PA
CT
CA
NE
AZ
DC
GA
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY

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 Arizona

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 3%Fundraising 5%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AZ

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Questions and answers

Who funds RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY?
RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY (Arizona) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,096 to it, the largest being PETSMART CHARITIES INC ($74,425). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $445,096 in grants to RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY?
PETSMART CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $74,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 24 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