North Carolina · Nonprofit
SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC
SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $518,721 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($97,971). 24 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 FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $519k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Second Chance Pet Adoptions Inc does
Mission
To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Second Chance Pet Adoptions continues our essential mission of saving lives of cats and dogs by providing them with shelter, medical care, food, socialization, love and finding them their forever homes. The organization welcomes all breeds of cats and dogs, accepting stray and abandoned animals found by community members or by pulling animals from government shelters. Second Chance accepts healthy animals as well as animals in need of special care such as those requiring surgery, treatments such as for heartworms and specialized diets. Pregnant, nursing animals and newborns needing to be bottle fed are also provided care within our program. Second Chance commits to each animal for their entire lives, taking them back into our program if the adoptive parents can no longer care for them. We also work with several government run shelters to take their animals into our program, decreasing euthanasia rates by freeing space in those shelters and by taking animals which require medical procedures that these shelters can not provide. Second Chance also collaborates with other rescues and non-profits to save dogs from high kill shelters by pulling, quarantining, providing medical care and…
$889,810 spentof which $97,776 as grants$86,925 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $889,810.
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 $1.6M to $2.2M (+38%).
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 SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Nick Costa
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $8k → $100k.
9 of 32 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 SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% 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 SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 48% · 2019 54% · 2020 36% · 2021 31% · 2022 18% · 2023 29% — 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
27% of SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
54% of SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS 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 $240k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS 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 SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC?
- SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $518,721 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($97,971). 24 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 SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $518,721 in grants to SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $97,971 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 32 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