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Sunny Paws Rescue

Sunny Paws Rescue (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,545 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$229k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$246k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Sunny Paws Rescue does

Mission

To save canine lives and find forever homes

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Rescue and adoption

    $158,587 spent$113,130 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,587.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($46k) Expenses 100 ($15k) Net assets 100 ($31k)2022 Revenue 433 ($199k) Expenses 1306 ($194k) Net assets 147 ($45k)2023 Revenue 252 ($116k) Expenses 702 ($104k) Net assets 184 ($57k)2024 Revenue 443 ($203k) Expenses 576 ($86k) Net assets 564 ($175k)2025 Revenue 500 ($229k) Expenses 1068 ($159k) Net assets 791 ($246k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (500)Expenses (1068)Net assets (791)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 2023 to 2024, from $57k to $175k (+207%).

$31k
$45k
$57k
$175k
$246k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

40% of Sunny Paws Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
’21
$5k
’22
$12k
’23
$118k
’24
$71k
’25
19
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.

Chief executive

Toni Eaton

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202220242025
Listed311
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $56 → $26k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Sunny Paws Rescue’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

Sunny Paws Rescue leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

51% 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 Sunny Paws Rescue.

34%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 38% — 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

51% of Sunny Paws Rescue'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

WA
MA

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

’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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

Sunny Paws Rescue runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve18.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)50% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Sunny Paws Rescue

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sunny Paws Rescue: 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 Sunny Paws Rescue?
Sunny Paws Rescue (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,545 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sunny Paws Rescue have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $40,545 in grants to Sunny Paws Rescue, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sunny Paws Rescue?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sunny Paws Rescue find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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