Texas · Nonprofit
THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION
THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $258,623 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($111,347). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $388k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $259k
- Net assets
- $749k
What The Therapet Animal Assisted Therapy Foundation does
Mission
Therapets mission is to utilize specially trained and certified animals to promote health, hope, and healing. We accomplish this mission by:1. Establishing and communicating standards for using specially trained animals in the healthcare setting.2. Providing education to health care professionals.3. Educating communities on opportunities and benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy.4. Training, certifying, and assuring competency of human/animal volunteer teams.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Since 1994, Therapet has provided Animal Assisted Activities (AAA) or Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) free of charge. Therapet is directly involved in a wide range of human services including physical and cognitive rehabilitation, therapeutic interventions with victims of family violence and sexual assault, reading programs, education seminars, and community events. In 2025, Therapet sponsored approximately 86 human/animal teams including 78 dogs, 3 cats and a cockatoo. Therapet teams served the community with approximately 7,427 volunteer hours of AAA/AAT and an estimated 5,000 human/animal encounters yearly including over 1,351 animal visits. Therapets 2025 accomplishments:1. Therapet Skills Class: Therapet continued training teams with 20 formal classes especially designed to train new teams. 9 new teams were certified.2.Team re-certification: To ensure Therapet teams are highly skilled, certified teams undergo an annual recertification process and volunteer orientation. 66 teams were recertified.3.AAA/AAT programs: Therapet maintained or enhanced AAA/AAT services to an extremely wide range of settings. These include the following:a.Community agencies who provide emergency…
$170,880 spent$14,405 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $170,880.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $559k to $709k (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION’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. 1 of the last 8 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 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $51k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION’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
THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 60% · 2019 83% · 2020 73% · 2021 63% · 2022 47% · 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.
Where its funders are
98% of THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k 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
THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION?
- THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $258,623 to it, the largest being EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ($111,347). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $258,623 in grants to THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION?
- EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $111,347 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE THERAPET ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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