Florida · Nonprofit
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc (Florida) receives grants from 394 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,197,643 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,830,882). 254 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 394
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $103M
What Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc does
Mission
Dogs Inc mission is to transform lives by creating and nurturing extraordinary partnerships between people and dogs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
When people lose vision, it's easy to lose hope. When veterans lose hope, it's easy to give up everything. It's easy to let darkness define life instead of living life to its fullest. Our dogs deliver hope to people who need it most.* We currently ensure the wellbeing of over 1,300 dogs, including puppies and dogs training on our campus, dogs growing in puppy raiser homes, and active guide, service, and skilled companion dogs transforming lives throughout the country. During the past year, we placed more than 130 dogs into important, impactful careers.* We provide a personal, caring touch through follow-up services to more than 700 graduates throughout the United States. Our students-people with vision loss and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder-report a 99.7% overall satisfaction rating in their exit surveys.* Dogs Inc operates the most comprehensive alumni support of any service dog organization in North America. Thanks to partnerships with Fromm Family Pet Food, Elanco and private donors and veterinarians, our organization ensures that every graduate can receive-completely free of charge-premium dog food, monthly preventatives, vaccinations, and financial support for…
$16,326,740 spent$354,729 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,326,740.
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 2019 to 2020, from $57M to $70M (+22%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Titus Herman
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Robert Meade
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 103 funders to 169 funders, grant income rose $2.4M → $6.1M.
49 of 394 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Southeastern Guide Dogs Endowment Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 394 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
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 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 Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 18% · 2019 19% · 2020 39% · 2021 18% · 2022 8% · 2023 22% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
56% of Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $76k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $76k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Southeastern Guide Dogs 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Endowment Trust · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 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 Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc?
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc (Florida) receives grants from 394 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,197,643 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,830,882). 254 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc have?
- IRS filings report 394 organizations giving $36,197,643 in grants to Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc, 254 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,830,882 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southeastern Guide Dogs 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 394 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