How much did Every Creature Counts grant in FY2018?

Every Creature Counts reported 17 grants totaling $326,150 in its FY2018 IRS filing.

Where is Every Creature Counts based?

Every Creature Counts is based in CO.

Every Creature Counts

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

Every Creature Counts

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

$326k

Granted FY2018

Grants

Communities

$40k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2018 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

Angels with Paws$40,000
Steel City Alley Cat Coalition$34,500
San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society$32,000
JJ's Helping Paws$25,000
Eastern CO Allicance for Animals$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
The Feline Fix$10,000
Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue$10,000
Almost Home Adoptions$10,000
Peace Love Paws Inc$10,000
Lexie's Helping Pets Fund$10,000
Cat Care Society$10,000

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 8%. 66% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Paws and Claws Animal Shelter

Animals

Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Aminal Rescue

Animals

Kitten Around Cat Rescue

Animals

Blues Mews Siamese Cat Rescue

Animals

Saint Francis Feline Sanctuary

Animals

Felines & Friends New Mexico

Felines & friends is a "second chance" rescue and placement organization focusing on providing vet care and socialization for cats and kittens who might not otherwise find homes through animal shelters. since 2002, we have placed over…

Animals

Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals

Cocoa Kitties

Animal rescue

Animals

Mother Gaia Animal Rescue

Dog and cat rescue

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Snuggle Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals

4 Paws 4 Life Rescue

Dog rescue, adoption, and boarding

Animals

Paws 4 a Cause Rescue

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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

12/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$249,000Other$54,500

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

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 FoundationCO26.2× 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 · The Janus Henderson Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Animal Assistance Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · American Express Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good

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 organisation 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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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841530392 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on San Luis Valley Animal Welfare Society, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Every Creature Counts?

Find your warmest path to Every Creature Counts through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Every Creature Counts

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Every Creature Counts?

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Every Creature Counts

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Every Creature Counts?

More from the funding graph