· Private foundation
Angus Held Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mountain Pet Rescue | $60,000 |
| Soccer Without Borders | $10,000 |
| LOLA's Rescue | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMOUNTAIN PET RESCUE8× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +65%
- SWSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS7× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +235%
- EPEl Paso Pride Soccer Association2× · 2017–2018 · $28k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -4%
- POPAWS OF WAR INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +48%
- GCGRAND COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +63%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Transforming the lives of shelter pets and veterans through compassionate assessment, compatible adoptions, and ongoing support.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Rescues dogs, rehomes German shepherds, and provides medical and shelter care.
Great Pyrenees Rescue Society Inc. is an all volunteer non profit organization dedicated to the rescue and adoption of Great Pyrenees dogs and mixes whose lives are considered in danger. The dogs we take care of are owner surrender strays…
Rocky Mountain Puppy Rescue is a group of hardworking fosters and volunteers who work to save the lives of unwanted dogs and puppies around the Colorado area. We focus on the younger animals that, when dumped in a shelter, are often…
Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.
Lucky Day Animal Rescue of Colorado LDAR serves the public as a 501c3 tax exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue of homeless and abandoned animals in Colorado and surrounding areas. We rescue, rehabilitate and find homes…
High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…
Animal Rescue and Adoption
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds Power of One Foundation ↗
- Who funds El Paso Pride Soccer Association ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LOLAS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Columbine Community Foundation ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Angus Held Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Angus Held Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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