· Private foundation
Animal Assistance 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $279k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOCO HUMANE (FORMERLY LARIMER | $165,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $103,200 |
| GRAND COUNTRY PET PALS | $100,000 |
| NOCO HUMANE (FORMERLY LARIMER | $100,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE | $80,000 |
| DOGSTER'S SPAY & NEUTER PROGRAM | $77,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $76,500 |
| DOGSTER'S SPAY & NEUTER PROGRAM | $60,000 |
| COLORADO PET PANTRY | $60,000 |
| ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION OF | $60,000 |
| MESA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES | $60,000 |
| RIVERDALE ANIMAL SHELTER | $60,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY | $50,000 |
| BERGEN SPAY AND NEUTER ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| ALL BREED RESCUE & TRAINING | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Animal Assistance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 97% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 14 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $656k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DDDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE4× · 2018–2023 · $898k · revenue +81%
- NHNoco Humane5× · 2018–2024 · $535k · revenue +56%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION4× · 2018–2022 · $494k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REone grant, 2023 · $231k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAKone grant, 2024 · $193k
- DFDUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE-SAN LUIS VALLEYone grant, 2024 · $160k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
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.
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…
Free/affordable and safe spay and neuter clinics in low-income areas around Colorado as well as occasional rescue and adoption of homeless animals
Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youthroots. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 130 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Noco Humane ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PET PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Dogsters Spay and Neuter ↗
- Who funds Journey Home Animal Center ↗
- Who funds ROICE-HURST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Street Dog Coalition ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND COUNTY PET PALS INC ↗
- Who funds Denver Animal Foundation ↗
- Who funds JJ'S HELPING PAWS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SURFACE CREEK ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Morgan Humane Society ↗
- Who funds REZDAWG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Bergen Spay and Neuter Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund · Greater Good Charities · Wags and Menace Make a Difference Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Animal Assistance Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.