Missouri · Nonprofit
SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY
SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY (Missouri) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,478 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($122,422). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $329k
- Net assets
- $436k
What Shep's Place Senior Dog Sanctuary does
Mission
To love and care for senior dogs
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Providing refuge for abandoned old dogs in the kansas city area. We are a small, private shelter that focuses on the care of senior dogs. We hope to find our dogs new families, but that is often difficult for seniors, so if we can't, we will be their permanent, loving home. We focus on senior dogs who have already spent time in a shelter or rescue, waiting to find a family. The dog's quality of life is our highest goal at shep's place, with ample play time, freedom of movement, and caring, human interaction. We believe our silver-muzzled friends deserve to enjoy their lives and be themselves for as long as they are able. The goal is to provide a home for the dogs, to get them out of their kennels, and let them wander the house, play in the yard, or sleep, as they choose.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $223k to $393k (+76%).
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 SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY’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 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $81k → $34k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG 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
SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 74% · 2020 55% · 2021 48% · 2022 43% · 2023 45% — 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
50% of SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
76% of SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG 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 $78k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k 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
SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY 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 SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY?
- SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY (Missouri) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $329,478 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($122,422). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $329,478 in grants to SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $122,422 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 14 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