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Tigertree Foundation at a glance

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Tigertree Foundation

Its FY2022 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 FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$1k
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, FY2017 to 2022.

Animals$118kHealth$5kReligion$2kEnvironment$2kHuman Services$1kHousing & Shelter$1kArts & Culture$500
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,109
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REZ DAWG RESCUE$1,109
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Beach Mutts: $41k → 11%United Animal Nations (Red Rover): $500 → 12%Mercy for Animals: $5k → 14%Crisis Center: $1k → 3%Jade Woman De Lalonde Inc: $800 → 7%Andean Tapir Fund: $8k → 7%Circle 2 Ranch-an Animal Sanctuary: $4k → 7%Inst for the New Man dba Friends of Man: $2k → 8%W O L F: $250 → 11%REZ DAWG RESCUE: $1k → 12%Step Denver: $1k → 12%Rez Dawg Rescue: $3k → 15%Wild For Life Foundation: $7k → 14%Andean Tapir Fund: $2k → 7%Circle 2 Ranch-an Animal Sanctuary: $1k → 7%Institute for the New Man dba Friends of Man: $2k → 8%Northern CO Friends of Ferals: $1k → 11%Colorado Public Television Inc: $250 → 12%Rezdawg Rescue Inc: $500 → 15%Circle 2 Ranch-an Animal Sanctuary: $1k → 7%Duncans Place A Cat Sanctuary: $3k → 11%Barnwater Cats: $750 → 12%Duncans Place A Cat Sanctuary LLC: $500 → 11%Barnwater Cats: $500 → 12%Denver Animal Shelter: $3k → 12%Denver Animal Foundation: $2k → 12%Rocky Mountain PBS: $250 → 12%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 10 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$64k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+106%

Still filing today

40%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22
AnimalsHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • JH
    JJ'S HELPING PAWS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +8%
  • RR
    REZDAWG RESCUE INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +274%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN
    2× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BO
    BEACHMUTTS ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $41k · revenue ×20
  • WF
    WILD FOR LIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • MF
    MERCY FOR ANIMALS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +106%
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
Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal
2
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…

Animals
3
Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals
4
Denver Kittens

Denver Kittens focuses on providing free and low cost spay and neuter services. trap neuter return services, and rescue for social cats and kittens in order to reduce the feral cat population and make spay and neuter services more…

Animals
5
Good Dog Rescue

To save dogs from high kill shelters and place them into loving foster homes. Prior to adoption our dogs will be vetted, spayed or neutered and nurtured to join a supportive and loving home environment.

Animals
6
Colorado Animal Welfare League

Free/affordable and safe spay and neuter clinics in low-income areas around Colorado as well as occasional rescue and adoption of homeless animals

Animals
7
Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

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8
Ark-Valley Humane Society Inc

Ark-Valley Humane Society's (AVHS) Mission is ensuring the welfare of companion animals through compassion and care. AVHS operated an open-admission animal shelter for Chaffee County, Colorado.

Animals
9
No Kill Colorado

No kill colorado?s mission is to help make colorado the safest state for homeless animals

Animals
10
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
11
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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12
Noco Humane

Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.

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 Jade Woman de LaLonde Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 25 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)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEACHMUTTS ORGANIZATION: $41,000 · AnimalsBEACHMUTTS ORGANIZATIONJJ'S HELPING PAWS: $12,800 · AnimalsJJ'S HELPING PAWSMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $5,000 · AnimalsMERCY FOR ANIMALS INCREZDAWG RESCUE INC: $4,109 · AnimalsREZDAWG RESCUE INCAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $2,500 · Animals+3 more: $2,550 · AnimalsVIDAS: $17,750 · OtherVIDASAndean Tapir Fund: $10,000 · OtherAndean Tapir FundWILD FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $6,500 · OtherWILD FOR LIFE FOUNDATIONCircle 2 Ranch-an Animal Sanctuary: $6,203 · OtherCircle 2 Ranch-an Animal SanctuaryDuncans Place A Cat Sanctuary: $3,300 · OtherDuncans Place A Cat SanctuaryDenver Animal Shelter: $2,500 · OtherTriYoga International: $2,300 · Other+4 more: $3,750 · Other+4 moreINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN: $4,000 · HealthDenver Animal Foundation: $2,053 · HealthCRISIS CENTER: $1,000 · HealthJade Woman de LaLonde Inc: $800 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $250 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $250 · Arts & Culture
Animals$67,959Other$52,303Health$7,853Arts & Culture$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIDAS: $17,750 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREZDAWG RESCUE INC: $4,109 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR THE NEW MAN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Animal Foundation: $2,053 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStep Denver: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJade Woman de LaLonde Inc: $800 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetW O L F: $250 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.

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…The Denver FoundationXcel Energy FoundationEl Pomar FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Colorado Gives FoundationCO16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Tigertree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tigertree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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 25 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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