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Sweet Paws Rescue Inc

Sweet Paws Rescue Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,673,129 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($436,194). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.7M
Revenue FY2025
39
Funders on record
$1.7M
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
21/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%

Against its field

Sweet Paws Rescue Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 606 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve30.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 606 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($537k) Expenses 100 ($428k) Net assets 100 ($241k)2018 Revenue 106 ($567k) Expenses 125 ($536k) Net assets 113 ($272k)2019 Revenue 143 ($767k) Expenses 166 ($713k) Net assets 135 ($326k)2020 Revenue 191 ($1.0M) Expenses 235 ($1.0M) Net assets 194 ($467k)2021 Revenue 245 ($1.3M) Expenses 193 ($828k) Net assets 427 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 284 ($1.5M) Expenses 227 ($971k) Net assets 707 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 260 ($1.4M) Expenses 210 ($899k) Net assets 913 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 263 ($1.4M) Expenses 186 ($797k) Net assets 1169 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 308 ($1.7M) Expenses 199 ($853k) Net assets 1501 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (308)Expenses (199)Net assets (1501)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

18% of Sweet Paws Rescue Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$109k
17
$31k
18
$54k
19
$20k
20
$490k
21
$553k
22
$497k
23
$618k
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$801k
25
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $8k → $345k.

10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)64% 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 Paws Rescue Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

Sweet Paws Rescue Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

67% 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 Paws Rescue Inc.

26%
largest funder
69%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 76% · 2019 85% · 2020 69% · 2021 39% · 2022 43% · 2023 59%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

60% of Sweet Paws Rescue Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

64% of Sweet Paws Rescue Inc'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 $595k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 39 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Sweet Paws Rescue Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 15%Fundraising 2%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited 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 Sweet Paws Rescue 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 Sweet Paws Rescue Inc?
Sweet Paws Rescue Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,673,129 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($436,194). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Sweet Paws Rescue Inc have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,673,129 in grants to Sweet Paws Rescue Inc, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sweet Paws Rescue Inc?
Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $436,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sweet Paws Rescue Inc 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.

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 39funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing