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Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets

Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $687,538 to it, the largest being THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ($343,800). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$488k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$688k
Net assets
$570k
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets does

Mission

Animal Shelter Activities providing low and medium income spay/neauter programs Activities providing education to the population about the necessity of

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Adoption program for dogs and cats providing shelter and medical care, including a spay/neuter for all adoptees.

    $488,959 spent$144,863 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $488,959.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($930k) Expenses 100 ($442k) Net assets 100 ($970k)2018 Revenue 53 ($496k) Expenses 121 ($533k) Net assets 96 ($934k)2019 Revenue 46 ($427k) Expenses 116 ($510k) Net assets 88 ($851k)2020 Revenue 50 ($468k) Expenses 114 ($501k) Net assets 84 ($817k)2021 Revenue 58 ($535k) Expenses 120 ($529k) Net assets 85 ($823k)2022 Revenue 40 ($369k) Expenses 117 ($516k) Net assets 70 ($677k)2023 Revenue 54 ($503k) Expenses 122 ($537k) Net assets 66 ($643k)2024 Revenue 53 ($488k) Expenses 127 ($561k) Net assets 59 ($570k)
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Revenue (53)Expenses (127)Net assets (59)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 2021 to 2022, from $832k to $688k (−17%).

$982k
$936k
$861k
$827k
$832k
$688k
$652k
$581k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets’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. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$488k
’17
−$36k
’18
−$83k
’19
−$34k
’20
$6k
’21
−$146k
’22
−$34k
’23
−$73k
’24
4.2
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed771098101010
Joined·+0+4+0+0+4+0+0
No longer listed·0111200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $117k → $93k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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

Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

39% 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 Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets.

50%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 51% · 2019 48% · 2020 57% · 2021 72% · 2022 55% · 2023 63% — 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 Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets'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

72% of Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

MI
NY
IN
OH
CA
AZ
TN

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

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’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−9% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like Sierra's Haven For New And Used 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 12%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets: 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 Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets?
Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $687,538 to it, the largest being THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION ($343,800). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $687,538 in grants to Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets?
THE SCIOTO COUNTY AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $343,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sierra's Haven For New And Used Pets find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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