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Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms

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.

$182k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$24M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$182k50%
FY20235$48k40%
FY20224$21k25%
FY20215$42k60%
FY20207$85k43%
FY20195$117k40%
FY201811$2.2Mn/a
74% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$2.4MEducation$103kHuman Services$88kReligion$25kEnvironment$10kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$6kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Smiles Forever Animal Rescue and Sanctua$1,056,637233%
Colorado State University Foundation$100,00040%
Equitarian Initiative$85,000413%
The Jensen Project Inc$21,00010%
Making of Miracle Stories Animal Rescue Inc$20,00012%
Natures Educators$10,00014%
Animal Aid Inc$10,00013%
Tomorrow's Rainbow Inc$10,00011%
Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center$7,50010%
Denver Dumb Friends League$5,15510%
Freedom Service Dogs Inc$4,78010%
University of Denver$3,30010%
Larkspur Chamber of Commerce$9663n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSmiles Forever Animal Rescue and Sanctua: $1,056,637 over 2y, 33% of budgetColorado State University Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEquitarian Initiative: $85,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetThe Jensen Project Inc: $21,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMaking of Miracle Stories Animal Rescue Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNatures Educators: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAnimal Aid Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTomorrow's Rainbow Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGreenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $5,155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Service Dogs Inc: $4,780 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms

How much does Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms give?
Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms reported 6 grants totaling $182,030 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (89%), Education (4%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Smiles Forever Animal Rescue and Sanctua ($1.1M), Colorado State University Foundation ($100k), Equitarian Initiative ($85k).
Does Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms based?
Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms is based in TX.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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