Connecticut · Nonprofit
TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc
TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,217 to it, the largest being PATRICIA ARMSTRONG DRESSLER FOUNDATION ($122,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $-9017
What TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to serve as an animal rescue dedicated to saving dogs and cats from high kill-shelters, facilitating rescued animals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization's accomplishments for 2024 include the following:We helped local shelters in Hew Haven County with/by taking in some of their small dogs in our rescue, then vetting them and getting them adopted. We have helped numerous owner surrender dogs when the owner could no longer care for their pets due to being elderly or losing their homes or cannot afford vet bills. We helped the girl scouts put together a little book on adopting shelter pets. We are a strong advocate for spay/neuter early programs. We have a relationship with a local vet for low cost spay/neuter. We have also formed a close relationship with pet food for our intakes.
$60,748 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,748.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6k to $2k (−65%).
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.
62% of TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $37k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc’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
TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 47% · 2021 60% · 2022 68% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc: 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 TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc?
- TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,217 to it, the largest being PATRICIA ARMSTRONG DRESSLER FOUNDATION ($122,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $152,217 in grants to TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc?
- PATRICIA ARMSTRONG DRESSLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $122,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 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