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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $303,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $326,150 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,650 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
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
Evergreen Animal Protective League$10,000
Cat Care Society$10,000
Demi's Animal Rescue$10,000
Peace Love Paws Inc$10,000
Almost Home Adoptions$10,000
The Feline Fix$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
03Its 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jj's Helping Paws; 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 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. 14 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCJJ'S HELPING PAWS: $25,000 · AnimalsJJ'S HELPING PAWSSILS AFFORDABLE VET CARE: $25,000 · AnimalsSILS AFFORDABLE VET CAREANIMAL 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 AssociationTHE FELINE FIX: $10,000 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN FELINE RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsPEACE LOVE & PAWS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsEVERGREEN ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $10,000 · AnimalsALMOST HOME ADOPTIONS: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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…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

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 Every Creature Counts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Every Creature Counts. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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
    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 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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