Colorado · Public charity
Denver Dumb Friends League
Working with our compassionate community, we will end pet homelessness and animal suffering.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $20k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $180M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Denver Dumb Friends League funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $31k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $65k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $429k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $475k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petaid Colorado | $755,023 | 3 | 10% |
| The Colorado Humane Society & Spca Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 65% |
| Colorado Federation of Animal Welfare | $142,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Peaceful Animal Adoption Shltr Inc | $74,790 | 3 | 9% |
| Dalhart Animal Wellness Group and Sanctuary D a W G S | $40,200 | 2 | 7% |
| Catalyst Council Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Denver Art Museum | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley Humane League | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Colorado Veterinary Medical Association | $6,645 | 1 | 1% |
| Colorado Unwanted Horse Alliance | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petaid Colorado | $755,023 | 3 | 10% |
| The Colorado Humane Society & Spca Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 65% |
| Colorado Federation of Animal Welfare | $142,000 | 8 | 16% |
| Peaceful Animal Adoption Shltr Inc | $74,790 | 3 | 9% |
| Dalhart Animal Wellness Group and Sanctuary D a W G S | $40,200 | 2 | 7% |
| Catalyst Council Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Denver Art Museum | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Valley Humane League | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Colorado Veterinary Medical Association | $6,645 | 1 | 1% |
| Colorado Unwanted Horse Alliance | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Drifters Hearts of Hope Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Denver Dumb Friends League supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Denver Dumb Friends League
- How much does Denver Dumb Friends League give?
- Denver Dumb Friends League reported 1 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $30,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Denver Dumb Friends League fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (98%), Community Improvement (1%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are Denver Dumb Friends League's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Petaid Colorado ($755k), The Colorado Humane Society & Spca Inc ($500k), Colorado Federation of Animal Welfare ($142k).
- Does Denver Dumb Friends League fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Denver Dumb Friends League?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Denver Dumb Friends League based?
- Denver Dumb Friends League is based in CO.
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