North Dakota · Nonprofit
TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE
TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE (North Dakota) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,480 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($151,955). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $808k
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue does
Mission
To rescue stray animals and re-home ones in need while putting into place the necessary services to decrease animal overpopulation. It is our mission to work with the communities we serve so that together we can come up with long term permanent solutions that improve the quality of lives for humans and animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue's mission is to rescue stray animals and re-home ones in need while putting into place the necessary services to decrease animal overpopulation. It is our mission to work with the communities we serve so that together we can come up with long term permanent solutions that improve the quality of lives for humans and animals.in 2025, we took in 826 animals. We also had several litters born at the rescue. We facilitated the adoptions of 664 animals. We have also partnered with several other animal rescues to move animals to places that don't have as many animals available.tmar has expanded its reach beyond our adoption area of north dakota and minnesota by organizing adoption road trips resulting in adoptions in multiple states. By facilitating adoptions of dogs and cats outside our region, we've not only found homes for these animals but also created space to rescue more homeless or injured animals. Last year, our road trips enabled 51 animals to find their forever homes, while also providing a safe haven in our rescue for other animals. We also built on our air transport program through southwest and delta airlines adopting 6 animals outside of north…
$819,655 spent$119,177 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $819,655.
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.
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 $1.2M to $2.6M (+113%).
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: 2018 94% · 2019 97% · 2021 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Keith Benning
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $17k → $231k.
15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
69% 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 TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 28% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% — 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
44% of TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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 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
65% of TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL 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 $284k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside North Dakota, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $524k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $92k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$92k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE: 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 TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE?
- TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE (North Dakota) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,480 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($151,955). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $808,480 in grants to TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $151,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 55 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