Florida · Nonprofit
SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC
SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,029 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($108,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $419k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Sophie's Circle Inc does
Mission
Sophies circle provides pet food to financially challenged families in an ongoing effort to keep pets in their homes. We also rescue, rehabilitiate and rehome dogs and cats in private foster homes until we find them their forever home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Animal rescue - animals are taken in from high kill shelters, owner surrenders or are brought in as strays. Animals are immediately sent to a vet and evaluated. Medical needs are addressed and protocol is that every animal that comes into our rescue is spayed or neutered. They are all brought up to date on shots and if they are heartworm positive, they are treated. Any other medical issues are addressed and treated. Once the animal is vetted, they go to an approved foster home where they stay until we find them an approved new home. All applications are reviewed by our volunteers, references are checked and homes are inspected. The new adopter signs a contract with us and a stipulation of the contract is that the animal must be returned to our rescue if for any reason it doesn't work out. There is no time limit on that stipulation. We stay in contact with our adoptive families to make sure the relationship is successful.
Food pantry - as the only pet food pantry in volusia, we provide pet food to financially challenged families at various locations on a weekly basis. Financial hardship must be proven when a new family signs up for the program and proof of spay/neuter for each animal receiving food must be provided. Once the family has qualified, they receive a card and each time they receive food the card is marked with the date. Cards are not transferrable and no one is allowed to pick up for anyone else.
Adoption - applicants fill out an adoption application which is reviewed by our volunteers. All references are checked and homes are visited and inspected. We check the 'do not adopt' lists and we make sure it will be a good match based on what we know about the dog being chosen. A contract is signed once the animal goes to their new home and one of the stipulations is the animal must be returned to our rescue if it doesn't work out for any reason. Our adoption fees are 50 to 200 based on age and special needs.
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$374,257 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $374,257.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $626k to $1.9M (+200%).
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.
98% of SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $17k → $195k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC’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
SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 56% · 2019 57% · 2020 59% · 2021 54% · 2022 44% · 2023 56% — 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
57% of SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171k 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
SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOPHIE'S CIRCLE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC?
- SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,029 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($108,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $419,029 in grants to SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $108,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOPHIE'S CIRCLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 16 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