· Public charity
Veteran Sheepdogs of Colorado
To assist disabled or needy veterans and their families.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Freedom Support Alliance | $90,000 |
| Mountain High Service Dogs Inc | $10,000 |
| AMPLIO FOUNDATION | $7,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $1.8M on the FY2021 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $875k to organizations and $881k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: To provide comprehensive training, transportation, and logistical support for Afghan refugees and contract working dogs left in Afghanistan · Charter plane for transporting of humanitarian aid to Kabul Afghanistan · Animals are People Too helped with logistics with the contract working dogs and the paperwork to move refugees and dogs to India.
Stated purpose: The ILead organization assisted in logistics and diplomacy in Europe. The money was for hotel, food, and transportation.
How this is measured
3 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Veteran Sheepdogs of Colorado funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Veteran Sheepdogs of Colorado. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Horizons Service Dogs: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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