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Every Creature Counts

Eliminate feral, stray, abandoned, & unwanted cat/dog population through adoption, spay/neuter services, and education. The Organization is closed and was formally dissolved in December 2020.

$326k
Granted FY2018
17
Itemized grants FY2018
17
Organizations funded FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$304k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$40,000
States reached, FY2018
2

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Angels With Paws$40,000118%
Steel City Alley Cat Coalition$34,5002n/a
San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society Inc$32,000126%
Jj's Helping Paws$25,0001n/a
Sils Affordable Vet Care$25,0001n/a
Animal Rescue of the Rockies$22,00015%
Animal Friends Alliance$20,00011%
Southern Colorado Spay & Neuter Association$15,0001n/a
The Feline Fix$10,00013%
Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue Inc$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Every Creature Counts by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Angels With Paws$40,000118%
Steel City Alley Cat Coalition$34,5002n/a
San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society Inc$32,000126%
Jj's Helping Paws$25,0001n/a
Sils Affordable Vet Care$25,0001n/a
Animal Rescue of the Rockies$22,00015%
Animal Friends Alliance$20,00011%
Southern Colorado Spay & Neuter Association$15,0001n/a
The Feline Fix$10,00013%
Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue Inc$10,0001n/a
Peace Love & Paws Inc$10,000119%
Evergreen Animal Protective League$10,00011%
Almost Home Adoptions$10,00013%
Handsome Hanks Hostel for Homeless Hounds$10,0001n/a
Demis Animal Rescue Inc$10,0001n/a
Lexie S Helping Pets Fund$10,0001n/a
Cat Care Society$10,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Every Creature Counts supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAngels With Paws: $40,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSan Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society Inc: $32,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAnimal Rescue of the Rockies: $22,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetAnimal Friends Alliance: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Feline Fix: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPeace Love & Paws Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetEvergreen Animal Protective League: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAlmost Home Adoptions: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCat Care Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 FoundationCO25.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundation · God's Light in the Darkness Foundation · Animal Assistance Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Dr Mary Bates Trust Fund · The Summerlee Foundation · American Express Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving 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.

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About Every Creature Counts

How much does Every Creature Counts give?
Every Creature Counts reported 17 itemized grants totaling $303,500, out of $326,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Every Creature Counts fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are Every Creature Counts's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: Angels With Paws ($40k), Steel City Alley Cat Coalition ($35k), San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society Inc ($32k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Every Creature Counts?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trust, Xcel Energy Foundation.
Where is Every Creature Counts based?
Every Creature Counts is based in CO.

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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports $12k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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