Colorado · Nonprofit
ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)
ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch) (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,979 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ($82,625). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $154k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $346k
- Net assets
- $-22235
What ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch) does
Mission
Animal Help Now creates innovative apps that empower the public to assist animals in our communities who are in crisis or otherwise imperiled. The organization also educates the public about keeping animals in our communities safe from human threats.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
PET HELP & RESCUE APP In addition to our extensive educational resources on domestic animal issues, Animal Help Now has added a household animal evacuation app to its repertoire. Pet Help & Rescue (PHaR) is slowly but surely gaining credibility in the emergency management landscape. We were honored to speak in November at the annual conference of the International Association of Emergency Managers. The talk was well attended, and our presence at the conference created a number of opportunities to mainstream the app. The Humane Society of Boulder Valley (CO) has integrated PHaR into their emergency preparedness/response literature, as have several governmental emergency management agencies. See www.PHaR.org for more information.
$62,289 spent52% of program spendingWILDLIFE EMERGENCY AND WILDLIFE CONFLICT SERVICES Animal Help Now's Wildlife Emergency service was accessed 150,394 times in 2025, a 20% increase over 2024. During the busy season (March-August), the service was accessed, on average, once a minute across the United States. Per usual, the animals most in need of help were birds and small mammals, no doubt due primarily to cat and dog attacks and window strikes for birds. Animal Help Now's Wildlife Conflict service was accessed 12,911 times in 2025, a 14% increase over 2024. As with wildlife emergencies, the top animal categories for "nuisance" wildlife issues were birds and small mammals, with bats, reptiles and skunks comprising an appreciable percentage. See www.AHNow.org for more information.
$51,773 spent43% of program spendingWILDLIFE REHABILITATOR EMERGENCY FUND In 2025 Animal Help Now distributed $3,700 in small rapid grants to wildlife rehabilitation operations impacted by disasters. Grants were generally in the amount of $400, and all were distributed within 24 hours of application. They helped operations impacted by the Texas Hill Country Floods, the Los Angeles Fire, wind damage in Iowa, flood damage in Arkansas and a fire at an opossum rehabilitation operation in Virginia. Additional funds were expended on technology to help us more effectively identify operations that were likely impacted by a disaster.
$6,380 spentof which $15,000 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,442.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $144k to $14k (−90%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
David Crawford
Board Secretary and Executive Director
Board chair
Janet Ingvaldsen
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $31k → $35k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 96% · 2020 42% · 2021 31% · 2022 41% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)'s grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $169k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch) has grown faster than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)?
- ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch) (Colorado) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $345,979 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ($82,625). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch) have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $345,979 in grants to ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch), 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch)?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $82,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL HELP NOW (formerly Animal Watch) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing