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THE INNER PUP

THE INNER PUP (Louisiana) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,472,160 to it, the largest being THE GOLDRING FOUNDATION ($369,610). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$641k
13/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What The Inner Pup does

Mission

The Inner Pup is a safety net for low-income pet owners, providing heartworm health, behavioral support, and essential services to help relieve unnecessary suffering and help pets stay with the families who love them and out of our overcrowded shelters. We bridge the gap for those who can't afford retail care so no one has to give up their pet due to financial barriers.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our comprehensive suite of services for low-income pet owners include monthly pop-up heartworm clinics; including heartworm testing, treatment, prevention and flea prevention. We partner with local veterinarians to offer veterinary assistance. Our dog training vouchers are designed to lower the incidence of shelter surrenders due to behavioral problems. Our outreach and engagement includes food distribution and education. And, our heartworm zero affiliate program offers free consulting to partner organizations who wish to adapt segments of our programs to their communities needs. We host focus groups and a special service initiative in the hollygrove neighborhood. Lastly, we are working on a study that will remove financial barriers to heartworm treatment, nation-wide. Our programs are all designed to foster a stronger bond between pets and their families and to build trust and better relationships within the community, to end the plight of animal welfare.

    $988,865 spent$66,820 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $988,865.

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 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($73k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2019 Revenue 238 ($256k) Expenses 190 ($139k) Net assets 285 ($168k)2020 Revenue 220 ($237k) Expenses 276 ($202k) Net assets 349 ($206k)2021 Revenue 250 ($269k) Expenses 303 ($222k) Net assets 348 ($205k)2022 Revenue 340 ($366k) Expenses 464 ($340k) Net assets 393 ($232k)2023 Revenue 743 ($799k) Expenses 964 ($705k) Net assets 550 ($325k)2024 Revenue 724 ($779k) Expenses 1109 ($812k) Net assets 495 ($292k)2025 Revenue 1299 ($1.4M) Expenses 1433 ($1.0M) Net assets 1085 ($641k)
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Revenue (1299)Expenses (1433)Net assets (1085)Peer revenue range

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 $299k to $662k (+122%).

$59k
$170k
$280k
$282k
$237k
$329k
$299k
$662k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of THE INNER PUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$117k
’19
$35k
’20
$47k
’21
$26k
’22
$93k
’23
−$33k
’24
$349k
’25
7.6
months of
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed7776676
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·001001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $58k → $155k.

4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 THE INNER PUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 22 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

THE INNER PUP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

56% 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 THE INNER PUP.

25%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 59% · 2019 68% · 2020 54% · 2021 32% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% — 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

70% of THE INNER PUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

THE INNER PUP draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 8 states in all.

WA
CA
UT
AZ
DC
LA
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $344k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE INNER PUP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · above the median
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)38% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE INNER PUP

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 Louisiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

54%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE INNER PUP?
THE INNER PUP (Louisiana) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,472,160 to it, the largest being THE GOLDRING FOUNDATION ($369,610). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE INNER PUP have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,472,160 in grants to THE INNER PUP, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE INNER PUP?
THE GOLDRING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $369,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE INNER PUP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing