Tennessee · Nonprofit
WORKING DOGS FOR VETS
WORKING DOGS FOR VETS (Tennessee) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,365 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GOLD STAR MOTHERS INC ($107,601). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $349k
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $672k
- Net assets
- $-149581
What Working Dogs for Vets does
Mission
Working Dogs for Vets mission is to provide service dogs and training to disabled heroes in need, empowering them as they return to civilian life with newfound independence; reducing suicide and overcrowding in animal shelters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
No veteran left behind program assists disabled heroes to train their own service dog. They are matched with a dog from a local shelter or an evaluation can be performed on there own dog and they can use there dog.
$107,524 spent50% of program spendingIn house service dog program is for disabled vets who can not train their own service dog. Dogs are trained to help with ptsd and mobility support, and other severe disabilities.
$107,524 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $215,048.
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 2021 to 2022, from $508k to $750k (+48%).
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: 2019 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WORKING DOGS FOR VETS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $4k → $61k.
11 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 WORKING DOGS FOR VETS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
WORKING DOGS FOR VETS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
75% 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 WORKING DOGS FOR VETS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 91% · 2020 96% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 28% — 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
33% of WORKING DOGS FOR VETS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
WORKING DOGS FOR VETS draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WORKING DOGS FOR VETS has grown faster than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WORKING DOGS FOR VETS
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 WORKING DOGS FOR VETS: 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 WORKING DOGS FOR VETS?
- WORKING DOGS FOR VETS (Tennessee) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,365 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GOLD STAR MOTHERS INC ($107,601). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORKING DOGS FOR VETS have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $672,365 in grants to WORKING DOGS FOR VETS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORKING DOGS FOR VETS?
- AMERICAN GOLD STAR MOTHERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $107,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORKING DOGS FOR VETS 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 44 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