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Tiny Paws Pug Rescue

Tiny Paws Pug Rescue (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,783 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($61,373). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$399k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$176k
Net assets
$-6438
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Tiny Paws Pug Rescue does

Mission

Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome Pugs and their mixes by providing compassionate care, essential medical support, and nurturing foster homes. We are committed to transforming the lives of these dogs and to educating communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Central California about responsible pet ownershipultimately promoting lifelong, loving homes for every dog we serve.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our organization provides rescue services for northern and central california region, rescue and care training for volunteers and adoption events to provide outsourcing of rescued animals.we have an all-volunteer network of 78 people. No one draws salary or compensation.in 2025 we rescued 283 dogs, an increase of 6% over 2024.since 2017 we have rescued a total of 1,662 animals.we run 4 adoption and training events each month in carmel, concord, los gatos, walnut creek.we have fund raiser training events approximately 6 times per year.we attend the holiday and the fourth of july parades for exposure.we are now expanding our reach through meetings with pug rescue organizations in california, new york, pennsylvania and tennessee.we use remote rescues to supplement our rescue capacity due to the continued overload in california.we have a large gathering called pug-o-ween in october for each year for all our constituents.

    $351,908 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $351,908.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2019 Revenue 121 ($145k) Expenses 139 ($154k) Net assets 54 ($11k)2020 Revenue 190 ($228k) Expenses 198 ($219k) Net assets 97 ($20k)2021 Revenue 281 ($337k) Expenses 250 ($278k) Net assets 386 ($80k)2022 Revenue 204 ($245k) Expenses 229 ($254k) Net assets 50 ($10k)2023 Revenue 204 ($244k) Expenses 232 ($257k) Net assets -12 ($-2568)2024 Revenue 272 ($327k) Expenses 304 ($337k) Net assets -62 ($-12876)2025 Revenue 333 ($399k) Expenses 353 ($392k) Net assets -31 ($-6438)
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Revenue (333)Expenses (353)Net assets (-31)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 2020 to 2021, from $22k to $104k (+371%).

$21k
$11k
$22k
$104k
$25k
$29k
$56k
$51k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of Tiny Paws Pug Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’18
−$10k
’19
$9k
’20
$60k
’21
−$10k
’22
−$13k
’23
−$10k
’24
$6k
’25
0.5
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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

Kim Smith

Chair/Exec. Dir

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed445576
Joined·+0+2+1+3+4
No longer listed·01115
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $16k → $20k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Tiny Paws Pug Rescue’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

Tiny Paws Pug Rescue leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

72% 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 Tiny Paws Pug Rescue.

35%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 63% · 2021 87% · 2022 61% · 2023 35% — 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

80% of Tiny Paws Pug Rescue's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

72% of Tiny Paws Pug Rescue'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 $48k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside California, across 5 states.

IL
NY
MA
CA
AL

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Tiny Paws Pug Rescue has grown faster than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 6%Fundraising 4%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited 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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Tiny Paws Pug Rescue?
Tiny Paws Pug Rescue (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,783 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($61,373). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Tiny Paws Pug Rescue have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $175,783 in grants to Tiny Paws Pug Rescue, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tiny Paws Pug Rescue?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,373 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tiny Paws Pug Rescue 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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