Virginia · Nonprofit
Colby's Crew Rescue
Colby's Crew Rescue (Virginia) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,695,921 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($3,934,869). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Colby's Crew Rescue does
Mission
Our mission is to save horses from being slaughtered, one life at a time.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We rescue horses with the least and most hope of survival from the slaughter pipeline. We spare horses with the least hope from the cruel and painful death that awaits them during transport to slaughter by ensuring a peaceful passing through veterinarian-administered compassionate euthanasia. We save horses with the most hope to medically treat, physically and psychologically rehabilitate, (re)train, and place in forever homes appropriate for their long-term health and well-being, rideability, and potential. Our gates are also always open to surrendered, abandoned, neglected, and abused horses. Horses determined inappropriate for adoption find a lifelong haven at Colby's Crew Rescue.
$7,739,052 spent$284,379 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,739,052.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $5.6M (+328%).
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.
98% of Colby's Crew Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Allison Smith
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 18 funders, grant income rose $3k → $669k.
14 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 Colby's Crew Rescue’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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
Colby's Crew Rescue leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 Colby's Crew Rescue.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of Colby's Crew Rescue'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 $362k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
Colby's Crew Rescue has grown faster than three-quarters of the 235 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 235 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Colby's Crew Rescue
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Colby's Crew Rescue: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Colby's Crew Rescue?
- Colby's Crew Rescue (Virginia) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,695,921 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($3,934,869). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Colby's Crew Rescue have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,695,921 in grants to Colby's Crew Rescue, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colby's Crew Rescue?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,934,869 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colby's Crew Rescue find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 45 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing