Colorado · 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $165,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Animal Assistance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $1.5M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $1.4M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $1.3M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $1.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $1.3M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $1.3M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $897,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Noco Humane | $535,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region | $493,834 | 4 | 1% |
| The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc | $485,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Colorado Pet Pantry | $325,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Animal Friends Alliance | $282,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Dogsters Spay and Neuter | $264,800 | 5 | 18% |
| Journey Home Animal Center | $253,500 | 6 | 8% |
| Roice-Hurst Humane Society Inc | $216,500 | 7 | 7% |
| The Street Dog Coalition | $138,000 | 7 | 7% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Animal Assistance Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Animal Assistance Foundation
- How much does Animal Assistance Foundation give?
- Animal Assistance Foundation reported 64 grants totaling $1,520,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Animal Assistance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (94%), Science & Tech (2%), Youth Development (1%).
- Who are Animal Assistance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Denver Dumb Friends League ($898k), Noco Humane ($535k), Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region ($494k).
- Does Animal Assistance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Animal Assistance Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Animal Assistance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, El Pomar Foundation, Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trust.
- Where is Animal Assistance Foundation based?
- Animal Assistance Foundation is based in CO.
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