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SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO

SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,770 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($85,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$115k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$178k
Net assets
$163k
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Sunshine Golden Retriever Rescue Co does

Mission

We work to save homeless golden retrievers from shelters, municipal pounds, and dogs turned in to us directly by owners who can no longer care for them. We do our best to assess each dog's medical needs, temperament, behavior, habits and exercise needs. Each dog receives any necessary vet care including all vaccinations and is spayed/neutered (if old enough) before adoption. We then carefully select homes based on the needs of each individual golden.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To save homeless golden retrievers from shelters, municipal pounds, and dogs turned in directly by owners who can no longer care for them. In 2025: 11 golden retrievers and 38 golden-hearted dogs. 11 purebred golden retrivers 22% of our intake. 38 golden mixes (or other) 78% of our intake.

    $97,034 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,034.

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 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($137k) Net assets 100 ($74k)2018 Revenue 72 ($109k) Expenses 93 ($128k) Net assets 75 ($56k)2019 Revenue 88 ($133k) Expenses 79 ($108k) Net assets 109 ($81k)2020 Revenue 86 ($131k) Expenses 108 ($149k) Net assets 84 ($63k)2021 Revenue 130 ($197k) Expenses 77 ($106k) Net assets 207 ($154k)2022 Revenue 106 ($160k) Expenses 111 ($153k) Net assets 217 ($161k)2023 Revenue 74 ($111k) Expenses 96 ($131k) Net assets 191 ($141k)2024 Revenue 98 ($148k) Expenses 101 ($139k) Net assets 204 ($151k)2025 Revenue 76 ($115k) Expenses 75 ($102k) Net assets 220 ($163k)
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Revenue (76)Expenses (75)Net assets (220)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $63k to $154k (+145%).

$74k
$56k
$81k
$63k
$154k
$161k
$141k
$151k
$163k
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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
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
−$18k
’18
$25k
’19
−$18k
’20
$91k
’21
$7k
’22
−$20k
’23
$10k
’24
$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $10k → $8k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO’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

SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% 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

43% 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 SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO.

48%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 50% · 2021 65% · 2022 84% · 2023 68% — 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

33% of SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 7 states in all.

ME
NY
OH
CT
TN
NC
FL

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

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO?
SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,770 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($85,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $177,770 in grants to SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO?
LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUNSHINE GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE CO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 12 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