Colorado · Nonprofit
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,529 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($399,024). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $889k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Colorado Animal Rescue Inc does
Mission
C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Colorado animal rescue provides animal sheltering and adoption servcices in the city of glenwood springs and garfield county, colorado. The shelter operates under the tenets of socially conscious sheltering and provides care for stray pets, owner relinquished animals, and homeless shelter pets from colorado and beyond. In 2023 colorado animal rescue provided housing to 589 dogs, cats and exotic pets with 427 adopted into new homes and 120 lost pets reunited with their owners. The shelter provides kennel space for up to 40 dogs, 50 cats , and various others (bunnies, guinea pigs, reptiles, etc.). Every animal that is housed at the shelter receives nutrition, medical and behavior assessments, vaccines,and veterinary care including spay / neuter procedures prior to adoption.
$617,946 spent$280,103 earned by the program98% of program spendingColorado animal rescue works to support successful pet ownership in our community and works to decrease the number of pets that need sheltering. The shelter's community programs provided assistance with pet food, veterinary expenses, and pet identification. In 2023, colorado animal rescue's community pet food bank provided 11,242 lbs of dry food and 1982 canned food to pet owners in need of assistance. The dove fund provided 48 vouchers for 50 off spay/neuter procedures at local vets, and our free pet id tag program provided 139 free pet identification tags mailed to home addresses.
$9,991 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $627,937.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $2.5M (+21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 37% · 2019 42% · 2020 42% · 2021 34% · 2022 22% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of Colorado Animal Rescue Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $138k → $98k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 Colorado Animal Rescue Inc’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
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 Colorado Animal Rescue Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 62% · 2019 54% · 2020 24% · 2021 74% · 2022 35% · 2023 21% — 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
42% of Colorado Animal Rescue Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
77% of Colorado Animal Rescue Inc'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 $201k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $688k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Colorado Animal Rescue Inc receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $889k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Colorado Animal Rescue Inc
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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Colorado Animal Rescue Inc: 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 Colorado Animal Rescue Inc?
- Colorado Animal Rescue Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $888,529 to it, the largest being ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($399,024). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Colorado Animal Rescue Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $888,529 in grants to Colorado Animal Rescue Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colorado Animal Rescue Inc?
- ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $399,024 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colorado Animal Rescue Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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