California · Nonprofit
TAILS OF JOY
TAILS OF JOY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,267 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($129,672). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $195k
- Net assets
- $861k
What Tails of Joy does
Mission
Tails of Joy rescues animals all across the country and beyond. Toj financially supports the smallest, neediest rescue groups across the us as well as canada and mexico, as well as funding food, medical and upkeep of the pets of the needy and housing insecure. Tails of Joy rescues every type of animal.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Tails of Joy rescues animals all across the country and beyond. Toj financially supports the smallest, neediest rescue groups across the us as well as canada and mexico, as well as funding food, medical and upkeep of the pets of the needy and housing insecure. Tails of Joy rescues every type of animal.
$117,703 spentof which $116,672 as grants$63,741 earned by the program74% of program spendingTails of Joy inc. Maintains a daily networking system to publicly promote animal adoption and fundraising for rescue. With close to 150,000 online followers, and an email rescue tree of scores of groups, Tails of Joy works all day long to get animals adopted. This service is all volunteer and does not take money out of the organization. Tails of Joy also donates fundraising items to many rescue groups holding auctions, raffles, fundraisers. No money is used from the organization for this.
$41,451 spentof which $1,462 as grants26% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,154.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $547k to $713k (+30%).
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.
74% of TAILS OF JOY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Elayne Ann Boosler
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $39k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 TAILS OF JOY’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
TAILS OF JOY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 TAILS OF JOY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 90% · 2022 53% · 2023 82% — 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
85% of TAILS OF JOY'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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.
Against its field
TAILS OF JOY's revenue fell 83% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TAILS OF JOY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TAILS OF JOY: 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 TAILS OF JOY?
- TAILS OF JOY (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,267 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($129,672). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TAILS OF JOY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $195,267 in grants to TAILS OF JOY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAILS OF JOY?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $129,672 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAILS OF JOY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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