Texas · Nonprofit
SECOND CHANCE PETS
SECOND CHANCE PETS (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,536 to it, the largest being HOUSTON PETSET ($23,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $176k
What Second Chance Pets does
Mission
Rescue and adoption of unwanted or homeless cats and dogs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Rescue unwanted cats and dogs and facilitate their adoption into permanent homes. In 2025 homes were found for 120 pets.
$72,888 spent75% of program spendingHelp reduce unwanted animal population by spaying and neutering feral cats. In 2025 243 cats were spayed or neutered.
$15,918 spent16% of program spendingDonate to help other rescue groups and individuals in severe financial need pay for pet medical care by making payments directly to the treating vet clinic, not the pet owner.
$8,324 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,130.
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.
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 $150k to $172k (+15%).
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.
81% of SECOND CHANCE PETS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $6k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 PETS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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 PETS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 PETS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 51% · 2020 44% · 2021 73% · 2022 61% · 2023 86% — 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
60% of SECOND CHANCE PETS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
89% of SECOND CHANCE PETS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PETS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SECOND CHANCE PETS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE PETS?
- SECOND CHANCE PETS (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,536 to it, the largest being HOUSTON PETSET ($23,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND CHANCE PETS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $66,536 in grants to SECOND CHANCE PETS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND CHANCE PETS?
- HOUSTON PETSET is the largest funder on record, with $23,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND CHANCE PETS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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