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Tom Adjutant and Ariel Steele Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Animals$32kHuman Services$11kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$1kArts & Culture$1kReligion$372Environment$250International$107Other$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$425k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENVER ZOO$10,500
NATEGEMEA FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
COLORADOGIVESORG$1,560
Individual grant recipient$1,040
KIDSPAK$1,030
Individual grant recipient$1,010
INTL DOCUMENTARY ASSN (IDA)$1,000
NEVADA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY$250
SEE INTERNATIONAL$107
39TH ANNUAL WHEELS$103
AMERICAN EAGLE FOUNDATION$100
REALTOR ASSOCIATION$100
COLORDAUS$35
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.

US giving: 81% of grant dollars ($51k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 19% that went abroad ($12k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $89) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Serve 6 8: $89 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NV
CA
CO
TN
FL

Beyond the US: 19% of all-years giving ($12k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Tanzania$10k · 1 grant
Mexico$1k · 1 grant
Canada$1k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
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
3
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
4
Accessible Alpine Adventure Tours
Health
5
Utah Zoological Society

Utah's hogle zoo creates champions for wildlife and is our community's gateway to animals, connecting our visitors with the natural world and engaging them in wildlife conservation action locally and worldwide.

Animals
6
Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region

To offer compassionate care to animals, support safe communities, and provide socially conscious sheltering. (continued on schedule o)

Animals
7
Luvin Arms

To provide exceptional lifelong, social, emotional, and cognitive care to rescued farmed animals and advocate for animals who have not been rescued by sharing our residents' stories to inspire, educate, and empower others to embrace a more…

Animals
8
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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9
Eagle-Eye Sanctuary Foundation
Animals
10
The Urban Farm

To provide urban residents the opportunity to participate in agriculture by removing the barriers to entry such as land access, time, location and finances; and inspire excitement through practical experience while fostering respect,…

Crime & Legal
11
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
12
Animal Angels
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immanuel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Abrahamic Reunion 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $31,000 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION+2 more: $614 · AnimalsNATEGEMEA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNATEGEMEA FOUNDATIONVILLAGE CARE PROJECT: $4,200 · OtherVILLAGE CARE PROJECTIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLORADOGIVESORG: $1,560 · OtherCOLORADOGIVESORGIndividual grant recipient: $1,040 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,010 · OtherINTL DOCUMENTARY ASSN (IDA): $1,000 · Other+7 more: $871 · OtherSMALL CHAMPIONS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSMALL CHA…+1 more: $89 · Human ServicesKIDSPAK INC: $1,280 · Food & NutritionABRAHAMIC REUNION INC: $258 · InternationalSURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $107 · InternationalIMMANUEL FOUNDATION: $25 · Religion
Animals$31,614Other$24,681Human Services$5,089Food & Nutrition$1,280International$365Religion$25

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 budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL CHAMPIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKIDSPAK INC: $1,280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL: $514 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAMIC REUNION INC: $258 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TONY ROBBINS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVE 6 8: $89 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMANUEL FOUNDATION: $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 DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMALL CHAMPIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDSPAK INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ABRAHAMIC REUNION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TONY ROBBINS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SURGICAL EYE EXPEDITIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN EAGLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SERVE 6 8 ↗
  • Who funds IMMANUEL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Tom Adjutant and Ariel Steele Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom Adjutant and Ariel Steele Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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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
    1report 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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