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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 FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$8.6MScience & Tech$195kYouth Development$129kArts & Culture$50kHousing & Shelter$27kHuman Services$27kCommunity Improvement$24kEducation$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $189k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $279k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COLORADO PET PANTRY$60,000
DOGSTER'S SPAY & NEUTER PROGRAM$60,000
RIVERDALE ANIMAL SHELTER$60,000
MESA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES$60,000
ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION OF$60,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY$50,000
BERGEN SPAY AND NEUTER ALLIANCE$30,000
ALL BREED RESCUE & TRAINING$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GRAND COUNTRY PET PALS: $100k → 7%Rifle Animal Shelter: $75k → 10%MESA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $60k → 11%LARIMER HUMANE SOCIETY: $200k → 11%Denver Animal Foundation: $100k → 12%SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL: $77k → 19%Rifle Animal Shelter: $50k → 10%LARIMER HUMANE SOCIETY: $200k → 11%DOGSTER'S SPAY & NEUTER PROGRAM: $78k → 12%Denver Animal Foundation dba Metro Denver CAT: $300k → 7%NOCO HUMANE (FORMERLY LARIMER: $165k → 11%DOGSTER'S SPAY & NEUTER PROGRAM: $60k → 12%NOCO HUMANE (FORMERLY LARIMER: $100k → 11%DOGSTER'S SPAY & NEUTER PROGRAM: $50k → 12%Denver Animal Foundation dba Metro Denver CAT: $204k → 7%HUMANE SOCIETY OF PIKES PEAK REGION: $133k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK: $133k → 9%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $160k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK RE: $133k → 9%RIVERDALE ANIMAL SHELTER: $60k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY: $75k → 12%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $140k → 12%Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region: $100k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY: $70k → 12%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE-SAN LUIS VALLEY: $120k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK RE: $90k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY: $50k → 12%HUMANE COLORADO (FORMERLY: $103k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE: $80k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY: $50k → 12%Dumb Friends League: $100k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF PIKES PEAK REGION: $75k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY: $50k → 12%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $100k → 12%Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region: $75k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY: $50k → 12%DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $90k → 12%HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK: $60k → 9%Dumb Friends League: $84k → 12%Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region: $50k → 9%Dumb Friends League: $82k → 12%Dumb Friends League: $75k → 12%ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $75k → 11%Dumb Friends League: $50k → 12%ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION OF: $60k → 12%Denver Animal Care and Control: $175k → 12%DENVER ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL: $75k → 12%DENVER ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL: $70k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Animal Assistance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 97%.

Animal Assistance Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 68 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
48

Total granted

$7.3M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+25%

Still filing today

63%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $656k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DD
    DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE
    4× · 2018–2023 · $898k · revenue +81%
  • NH
    Noco Humane
    5× · 2018–2024 · $535k · revenue +56%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $494k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK RE
    one grant, 2023 · $231k
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK
    one grant, 2024 · $193k
  • DF
    DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE-SAN LUIS VALLEY
    one grant, 2024 · $160k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
2
Dogs Unbroken

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…

Animals
3
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

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.

Animals
4
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
5
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

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.

Animals
6
Rescue Coop
Animals
7
Humane Society of Union County Inc

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.

Animals
8
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
9
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
10
Claws and Paws for a Cause

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…

Religion
11
Colorado Animal Welfare League

Free/affordable and safe spay and neuter clinics in low-income areas around Colorado as well as occasional rescue and adoption of homeless animals

Animals
12
Columbia Gorge Humane Society

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 130 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
53/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $897,500 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUENoco Humane: $535,000 · AnimalsNoco HumaneHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $493,834 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGIONTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $485,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INCCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $325,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO PET PANTRYANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $282,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCEDogsters Spay and Neuter: $264,800 · AnimalsJourney Home Animal Center: $253,500 · AnimalsROICE-HURST HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $216,500 · Animals+41 more: $1,477,427 · Animals+41 moreDenver Animal Foundation dba Metro Denver CAT: $503,699 · OtherDenver Animal Foundation dba Metro Denver CATDenver Animal Care and Control: $386,960 · OtherDenver Animal Care and ControlNOCO HUMANE (FORMERLY LARIMER: $265,000 · OtherNOCO HUMANE (FORMERLY LARIMERHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK RE: $231,333 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REMESA COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES: $200,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK: $193,333 · OtherDUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE-SAN LUIS VALLEY: $160,000 · Other+69 more: $1,847,633 · Other+69 moreDenver Animal Foundation: $100,000 · HealthCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationYOUTHROOTS: $9,000 · EducationNational Mill Dog Rescue: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Animals$5,230,561Other$3,787,958Health$100,000Education$29,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $897,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNoco Humane: $535,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION: $493,834 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $485,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $325,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $282,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetDogsters Spay and Neuter: $264,800 over 5y, 18% of budgetJourney Home Animal Center: $253,500 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetROICE-HURST HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $216,500 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetThe Street Dog Coalition: $138,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION: $136,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetGRAND COUNTY PET PALS INC: $133,390 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetDenver Animal Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetJJ'S HELPING PAWS: $99,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetCOLORADO HORSE RESCUE: $95,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetSURFACE CREEK ANIMAL SHELTER: $88,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetMorgan Humane Society: $73,580 over 5y, 24% of budgetREZDAWG RESCUE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $57,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBergen Spay and Neuter Alliance: $56,500 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF WELD COUNTY: $56,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetARK-VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $47,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetColorado Animal Rescue Inc: $42,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $38,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSPAYTODAY: $35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetRoutt County Humane Society: $33,100 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS: $33,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR LAB RESCUE: $31,100 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTELLURIDE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $30,321 over 1y, 35% of budgetPetaid Colorado: $29,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTELLER COUNTY REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELT: $29,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN VALLEY HORSE RESCUE: $28,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMontrose Animal Protection Agency: $26,000 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS: $26,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG: $24,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetLonghopes Donkey Shelter Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $22,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FELINE FIX: $19,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGRAND RIVERS HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetLOGAN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $17,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPAWSCO: $14,087 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCAT CARE SOCIETY: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SENIOR HUB INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEAGUE FOR ANIMALS AND PEOPLE OF THE SUMMIT: $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetYOUTHROOTS: $9,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetColorado Unwanted Horse Alliance: $7,500 over 1y, 7.5% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…El Pomar FoundationLauretta Boyd Charita…Xcel Energy FoundationMary Elizabeth Bates …Pedigree FoundationPetsmart Charities IncDr Mary Bates Trust F…Greater Good CharitiesWags and Menace Make …The American Society …The Duffield Family F…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO67.2× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Animal Assistance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Animal Assistance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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