California · Nonprofit
TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS
TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $467,649 to it, the largest being WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $733k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $468k
- Net assets
- $0
What Tender Loving Canines Assistance Dogs does
Mission
The Organization raises and trains service dogs for individuals on the autism spectrum and wounded warriors with post-traumatic stress syndrome, traumatic brain injury and/or mobility issues.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
The POOCH program was created to allow TLCAD to train more service dogs for individuals in need. By partnering with correctional institutions, incarcerated individuals are taught to train service dogs utilizing only positive reinforcement training methods and taught the science of behavior. Evidence from our 2018 internal impact report found that these methods increase inmate flexibility, communication and social skills, while academic research has found that dog training programs reduce violence in the prison and reduce the number of reoffending inmates. The POOCH program can currently accommodate 60 dogs and puppies in training. In 2018, 7 dogs graduated from the POOCH program as service dogs or facility dogs. TLCAD also launched the TLCAD Puppy Program in 2018.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $504k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $106k → $27k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS’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
TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 32% · 2019 41% · 2020 74% — 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
17% of TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
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 FY2020, 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
99% of TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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.
Organizations like TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS: 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 TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS?
- TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $467,649 to it, the largest being WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION ($175,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $467,649 in grants to TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS?
- WALTER J & BETTY C ZABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENDER LOVING CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 13 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