Perry Jowsey, Director of Development, Freedom Service Dogs

By Heather Fletcher

“FSD provides lifetime support to its client-dog partners to encourage increased independence and the loving, therapeutic bond between canine and human,” he adds.

To do that, the 100 percent donor-supported nonprofit that began in 1987 as a two-person organization now has 10 full-time and three part-time employees and operates on $950,000 a year, with the bulk of the funds coming from foundation and corporate grants (45 percent) and the rest arriving from individual contributions (34 percent), workplace giving campaigns (9 percent) and special events (8 percent).