Texas · Nonprofit
SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY
SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,954 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Sweet Dreams Senior Pet Sanctuary does
Mission
The mission of Sweet Dreams Senior Pet Sanctuary is to support elderly individuals who can no longer care for their senior pets by providing a safe and loving home for their cherished companions. The sanctuary offers two primary programs to ensure these cherished companions continue to receive love and care: 1) the sanctuary pets program provides a lifelong, loving home for senior pets whose elderly owners are unable to continue their care due to life transitions such as moving into assisted living facilities. These pets receive comprehensive care, including proper nutrition, grooming, exercise, socialization, pain management, and dignified end-of-life care. The sanctuary also facilitates visitations between the pets and their original owners in assisted living or nursing facilities. 2) the guardian angel program allows community members to provide permanent foster homes for senior pets while sdsps retains responsibility for the pets' medical care for the remainder of their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
At the outset of 2025, the Sweet Dreams Senior Pet Sanctuary (sdsps) had 16 senior dogs and 4 senior cats in its care. Over the course of the year, the sanctuary received an additional 7 senior dogs, resulting in a total of 23 senior dogs and 4 senior cats enrolled in our program throughout the year. We also had 3 deaths, so we ended the year with 20 senior dogs and 4 senior cats. These animals were surrendered primarily due to changes in their elderly owners' circumstances, particularly related to declining health, transitions to assisted living facilities and nursing homes, or other housing situations where pet ownership was no longer feasible. Six elderly individuals were directly supported in 2025 by the mission of Sweet Dreams Senior Pet Sanctuary during periods of significant life change, such as transitioning into assisted living or experiencing declining health. Through the structured surrender process, these individuals were able to place their senior pets into the sanctuary's care, ensuring that their companions would continue to receive consistent, high-quality care in a safe and nurturing environment. This service not only provided peace of mind to the individuals but…
$68,101 spent91% of program spendingAt the outset of 2025, four senior dogs were placed in loving homes through our guardian angel program. Throughout 2025, we had a total of ten senior dogs and one senior cat living in the community. This initiative allows animals to live in permanent foster placements, where they receive consistent companionship and care tailored to their needs. Although these animals reside with their forever fosters, they remain active participants in our program, with sdsps retaining financial responsibility for their medical care. This arrangement ensures that each animal continues to receive high-quality, compassionate care without placing an undue burden on their foster families. To date, 14 compassionate individuals have embraced the role of guardian angels, opening their homes and hearts to senior pets in need. These fosters have provided loving, stable environments for animals who may have otherwise faced an uncertain future. Through the guardian angel (forever foster) program, each participant has experienced the joy and emotional fulfillment that comes with pet companionship without the added stress of managing veterinary costs. This model has proven especially meaningful for…
$6,428 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,529.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $39k to $61k (+56%).
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.
100% of SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Carole Harrison
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY’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
SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY.
“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
76% of SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.
Against its field
SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY?
- SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,954 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,954 in grants to SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY.
- Who is the largest funder of SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWEET DREAMS SENIOR PET SANCTUARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2024–2025), 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