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· Public charity

Every Creature Counts

Eliminate feral, stray, abandoned, & unwanted cat/dog population through adoption, spay/neuter services, and education.

$326k
Granted FY2018
17
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $303,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $326,150 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,650 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Angels with Paws$40,000
Steel City Alley Cat Coalition$34,500
San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society$32,000
Eastern CO Allicance for Animals$25,000
JJ's Helping Paws$25,000
Animal Rescue of the Rockies$22,000
Fort Collins Cat Rescue$20,000
Southern Colorado Spay Neuter Assn$15,000
Handsome Hanks Hostel for Hounds$10,000
Lexie's Helping Pets Fund$10,000
Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue$10,000
Almost Home Adoptions$10,000
Cat Care Society$10,000
Evergreen Animal Protective League$10,000
Demi's Animal Rescue$10,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Handsome Hanks Hostel for Hounds: $10k → 19%Angels with Paws: $40k → 7%Animal Rescue of the Rockies: $22k → 8%Almost Home Adoptions: $10k → 10%Fort Collins Cat Rescue: $20k → 11%Eastern CO Allicance for Animals: $25k → 12%Peace Love Paws Inc: $10k → 12%Southern Colorado Spay Neuter Assn: $15k → 15%San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society: $32k → 17%Cat Care Society: $10k → 7%Demi's Animal Rescue: $10k → 8%The Feline Fix: $10k → 10%Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue: $10k → 12%Steel City Alley Cat Coalition: $35k → 15%Lexie's Helping Pets Fund: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
2
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
3
Kitten Around Cat Rescue
Animals
4
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
5
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
6
Blues Mews Siamese Cat Rescue
Animals
7
Ziggy and Friends Cat Rescue
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8
Ellas Feline Rescue Mission

To rescue, rehabilitate, provide veterinary care, and rehome homeless cats.

Animals
9
Cocoa Kitties

Animal rescue

Animals
10
Pound Pets Inc

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

Animals
11
Purrs and Whiskers Inc

Purrs and Whiskers primary function is to find forever homes for cats and kittens that are abandoned, stray, owner turn in, injured/sick, and/or born in feral colonies after we have fully vetted them by spaying/neutering, vaccinating,…

Animals
12
PurrHarmony Inc

Rescue and shelter cats

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jj's Helping Paws and the most unlike its peers is Sils Affordable Vet Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ANGELS WITH PAWS — $40,000 · AnimalsANGELS WITH PAWSSAN LUIS VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $32,000 · AnimalsSAN LUIS VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INCSILS AFFORDABLE VET CARE — $25,000 · AnimalsSILS AFFORDABLE VET CAREJJ'S HELPING PAWS — $25,000 · AnimalsJJ'S HELPING PAWSANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES — $22,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE OF THE ROCKIESANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE — $20,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCESouthern Colorado Spay & Neuter Association — $15,000 · AnimalsSouthern Colorado Spay & Neuter AssociationROCKY MOUNTAIN FELINE RESCUE INC — $10,000 · AnimalsALMOST HOME ADOPTIONS — $10,000 · AnimalsEVERGREEN ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $10,000 · AnimalsPEACE LOVE & PAWS INC — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE FELINE FIX — $10,000 · AnimalsDEMIS ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $10,000 · AnimalsCAT CARE SOCIETY — $10,000 · AnimalsSteel City Alley Cat Coalition — $34,500 · OtherSteel City Alley Cat…HANDSOME HANKS HOSTEL FOR HOMELESS HOUNDS — $10,000 · OtherHANDSOME HANKS HOSTE…LEXIE S HELPING PETS FUND — $10,000 · OtherLEXIE S HELPING PETS…
Animals$249,000Other$54,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetALMOST HOME ADOPTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEVERGREEN ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPEACE LOVE & PAWS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE FELINE FIX — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCAT CARE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Lauretta Boyd Charita…Xcel Energy FoundationMary Elizabeth Bates …God's Light in the Da…Animal Assistance Fou…The Janus Henderson F…El Pomar FoundationDr Mary Bates Trust F…The Summerlee Foundat…American Express Foun…Paypal Charitable Giv…
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

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 Every Creature Counts 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    2report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 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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