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Smokey Acres

Smokey Acres (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,571 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($82,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$40k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$98k
Net assets
$27k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 98%
01What it does

What Smokey Acres does

Mission

Feline Sanctuary

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Providing food and shelter for cats that are notsuitable for adoption

    $11,618 spent
    43% of program spending
  2. Providing vetinarian care for cats that are notsuitable for adoption

    $15,212 spent
    57% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,830.

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 ($16k) Expenses 100 ($17k) Net assets 100 ($154)2018 Revenue 152 ($25k) Expenses 105 ($18k) Net assets 4905 ($8k)2019 Revenue 120 ($20k) Expenses 162 ($27k) Net assets 139 ($214)2020 Revenue 258 ($43k) Expenses 126 ($21k) Net assets 14017 ($22k)2021 Revenue 167 ($27k) Expenses 195 ($33k) Net assets 10647 ($16k)2022 Revenue 138 ($23k) Expenses 232 ($39k) Net assets 193 ($297)2023 Revenue 336 ($55k) Expenses 222 ($37k) Net assets 12045 ($19k)2024 Revenue 321 ($53k) Expenses 337 ($56k) Net assets 9684 ($15k)2025 Revenue 243 ($40k) Expenses 169 ($28k) Net assets 17318 ($27k)
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Revenue (243)Expenses (169)Net assets (17318)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $214 to $22k (+9987%).

$154
$8k
$214
$22k
$16k
$297
$19k
$15k
$27k
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Total assets

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Smokey Acres’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,580 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$257
’17
$7k
’18
−$7k
’19
$21k
’20
−$5k
’21
−$16k
’22
$18k
’23
−$4k
’24
$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $22k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
2
3
3
3
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1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 Smokey Acres’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

Smokey Acres leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

85% 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 Smokey Acres.

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 92% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% — 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.

Where its funders are

85% of Smokey Acres'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Smokey Acres runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Smokey Acres

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 Michigan

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Smokey Acres?
Smokey Acres (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,571 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($82,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Smokey Acres have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $97,571 in grants to Smokey Acres, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Smokey Acres?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $82,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Smokey Acres find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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