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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0174% 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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMILES FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE$100,000
EQUITARIAN INITIATIVE$25,000
MAKING OF MIRACLE STORIES ANIMAL RESCUE INC$20,000
VARIOUS SMALL DONATIONS$19,530
TOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC$10,000
GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER$7,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE JENSEN PROJECT: $21k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 9 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$2.6M
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+34%

Still filing today

33%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
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

  • SF
    SMILES FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUA
    2× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +11% · 33% of their budget
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +25%
  • EI
    EQUITARIAN INITIATIVE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • E
    EQUITARIAN
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • TJ
    THE JENSEN PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +64%
  • LL
    LIBERTY'S LEGACY INC - JOURNEY WITH EQUUS
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Animal Angels
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4
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
5
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
6
Starfish Animal Rescue
Animals
7
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
8
A Better Chance International Rescue
—
9
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
10
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
11
Code 3 Associates Inc

Animal welfare code 3 associates provides professional animal disaster response and resources to communities, as well as providing professional training to individuals and agencies involved in animal related law enforcement and emergency…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Jl Animal Rescue Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is The Jensen Project 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

12 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. 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANIMAL JUSTICE CENTER: $1,235,000 · OtherANIMAL JUSTICE CENTERMOMS MAKING MIRACLE STORIES: $62,500 · Other+11 more: $109,299 · Other+11 moreSMILES FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUA: $1,056,637 · AnimalsSMILES FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUA+5 more: $52,655 · AnimalsCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $3,300 · EducationEQUITARIAN INITIATIVE: $85,000 · InternationalTHE JENSEN PROJECT INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $4,780 · Human ServicesTOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC: $10,000 · Health
Other$1,406,799Animals$1,109,292Education$103,300International$85,000Human Services$25,780Health$10,000

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

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
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 SMILES FOREVER ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUA ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUITARIAN INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE JENSEN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKING OF MIRACLE STORIES ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Natures Educators ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL AID INC ↗
  • Who funds TOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗

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 Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zoology Foundation at Crooked Willow Farms. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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