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Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$82kPhilanthropy$2k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
1
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$300
ANNIE'S K9 ORPHANS$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%MAZIES MISSION: $100 → 8%DFW FURGOTTEN FRIENDS: $1k → 14%SNOW CAPPED SHEPHERD RESCUE: $3k → 7%ALL PAWS MATTER: $700 → 8%HARLEYS HOUSE OF HOPE: $7k → 9%MAX FUND: $500 → 12%SHENANDOAH SHEPHERD RESCUE: $1k → 7%SNOW CAPPED SHEPHERD RESCUE: $2k → 7%BARKING MAD ANIMAL RESCUE: $250 → 8%HARLEYS HOUSE OF HOPE: $100 → 9%SNOW CAPPED SHEPHERD RESCUE: $2k → 7%ALL PAWS MATTER: $200 → 8%SNOW CAPPED SHEPHERD RESCUE: $500 → 7%ANGEL PAW ADVOCATES: $50 → 8%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38k · 13 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
64

Total granted

$38k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+56%

Still filing today

8%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HH
    HARLEYS HOUSE OF HOPE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k
  • SC
    Snow Capped Shepherd Rescue Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $7k · revenue +129%
  • PO
    PAWS ON THE GROUND CO
    5× · 2019–2023 · $6k

Funded once

  • LB
    LOST BALL K9 RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • PC
    PAWS CO
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • MH
    MILE HIGH GSP RESCUE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals
2
Raskels Rescue
Animals
3
Paws On the Ground Colorado

dog rescue and adoption

Animals
4
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
5
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
6
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
7
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
8
Rescue Coop
Animals
9
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
10
Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals
11
Angies Dog House

We are dedicated to rescuig animals left homeless for whatever reason, animals in public shelters where they are at high risk of euthanasia, animals given up by their owners because of difficult circumstances, and those in danger of abuse…

Animals
12
Good Dog Rescue

Work with animal control and humane societies to rehab dogs so they may be adopted

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trevors Animal Rescue; the most unlike its peers is Harleys Dream. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the 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 81 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARLEYS HOUSE OF HOPE: $7,350 · OtherHARLEYS HOUSE OF HOPEPAWS ON THE GROUND CO: $6,375 · OtherPAWS ON THE GROUND COLOST BALL K9 RESCUE: $5,800 · OtherLOST BALL K9 RESCUEPAWS CO: $5,000 · OtherPAWS COMILE HIGH GSP RESCUE: $4,618 · OtherMILE HIGH GSP RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $3,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUSAN COPPEL SHEPHARD RESCUE: $2,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,211 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,050 · Other+59 more: $20,922 · Other+59 moreSnow Capped Shepherd Rescue Inc: $7,255 · AnimalsSnow Capped Shepherd Resc…Underdogs: $4,700 · AnimalsUnderdogsTREVORS ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,100 · AnimalsTREVORS ANIMAL RESCUEDFW FURGOTTEN FRIENDS: $1,000 · AnimalsDFW FURGOTTEN FRIENDSSHENANDOAH SHEPHERD RESCUE INC: $1,000 · AnimalsSHENANDOAH SHEPHERD RESCU…LOLAS RESCUE: $1,000 · AnimalsLOLAS RESCUEALL PAWS MATTER: $900 · Animals+3 more: $625 · AnimalsHarleys Dream: $4,500 · EducationCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $775 · PhilanthropyNETWORK FOR GOOD: $150 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$59,976Animals$18,580Education$4,500Philanthropy$775Public Safety & Disaster$150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSnow Capped Shepherd Rescue Inc: $7,255 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetUnderdogs: $4,700 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetHarleys Dream: $4,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTREVORS ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,100 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDFW FURGOTTEN FRIENDS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSHENANDOAH SHEPHERD RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALL PAWS MATTER: $900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAXFUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRATON HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAZIE'S MISSION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE VALLEY INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Snow Capped Shepherd Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds Underdogs ↗
  • Who funds Harleys Dream ↗
  • Who funds TREVORS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds DFW FURGOTTEN FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH SHEPHERD RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOLAS RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds ALL PAWS MATTER ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MAXFUND INC ↗

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.

Xcel Energy FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Xcel Energy FoundationMN12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flying Shepherd Ranch Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 81 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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