Tennessee · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE
VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,327 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($6,815). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,109 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,109 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Southeast Community Capital Corporation D/B/A Pathway Lendinglocal
- Max Goldenson Foundation for Modern Dog Adoptionportfolio match
- Girtys Place Animal Rescue and Sanctuaryportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $37 → $651.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN 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
VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 70% · 2023 85% — 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
93% of VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN 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 $687 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Southeast Community Capital Corporation D/B/A Pathway LendinglocalTN · funds 513 organizations near you
- Max Goldenson Foundation for Modern Dog Adoptionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Girtys Place Animal Rescue and Sanctuaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Booboo Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marion and Richard Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Animal Care Coalition PACC911portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Jane's Healthypetnet Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cold Noses Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cause4paws Pet Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Houston Petsetportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Paws Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE?
- VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,327 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($6,815). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,327 in grants to VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE?
- PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $6,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER STATE DOBERMAN RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing