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Denver Pet Partners

Denver Pet Partners (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,103 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($27,542). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$70k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$42k
Net assets
$186k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Denver Pet Partners does

Mission

To deliver excellence in animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and enhance the health and wellness of people through AAI services, education & networking.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education/Child Welfare:Denver Pet Partners Provides support to children through reading and other educational programs. They also provide services to at-risk youth in our communities. Denver Pet Partners' registered volunteer therapy animal/handler teams work independently with children and in conjuction with teachers, librarians, therapists, and others to improve children's reading skills, social skills and physical abilties. The teams do both goal-oriented, documented animal-assisted therapy and less structured animal-assisted activities. Denver Pet Partners also educates the public, both children and adults, about the human-animal bond and animal-assisted intervention through presentations at schools, universities, conferences, health fairs and community events. During 2024, Denver Pet Partners responded to over 600 email and telephone inquiries from the public.

    $6,571 spentof which $692 as grants
    33% of program spending
  2. Healthcare:Denver Pet Partners provides registered volunteer therapy animal/handler teams to visit patients and residents in hospitals, senior living facilities, memory care residences, hospice facilities and rehab facilities. They provide companionship and comfort, promote physical and mental well-being, and participate in therapeutic, goal-oriented programs. Hundreds of clients benefit weekly from visits by Denver Pet Partners teams.

    $6,572 spentof which $692 as grants
    33% of program spending
  3. Literacy & Mentorship/Judicial System:Denver Pet Partners registered volunteer therapy teams visit schools, libraries and other facilities to read with children. The children read to the therapy animals which offers the children a safe, non-judgemental and supportive way to practice their literacy skills. Denver Pet Partners registered volunteer therapy teams work in pre-trial settings. Providing comfort to crime victims and witnesses along with families whose progress is being monitored by the legal system. The legal system can be daunting and overwhelming. The therapy animals and handlers provide emotional support when dealing with this system.

    $6,571 spentof which $692 as grants
    33% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,714.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($33k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($81k)2019 Revenue 114 ($37k) Expenses 106 ($24k) Net assets 116 ($93k)2020 Revenue 83 ($27k) Expenses 60 ($14k) Net assets 132 ($107k)2021 Revenue 69 ($23k) Expenses 111 ($25k) Net assets 129 ($104k)2022 Revenue 149 ($49k) Expenses 117 ($27k) Net assets 156 ($126k)2023 Revenue 156 ($51k) Expenses 111 ($25k) Net assets 188 ($152k)2024 Revenue 213 ($70k) Expenses 155 ($36k) Net assets 231 ($186k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (213)Expenses (155)Net assets (231)Peer revenue range

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 $152k to $186k (+23%).

$81k
$93k
$107k
$104k
$126k
$152k
$186k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of Denver Pet Partners’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’18
$13k
’19
$13k
’20
−$3k
’21
$22k
’22
$26k
’23
$34k
’24
63
months of
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.

Board chair

Ken McQuarrie

Chair/Treasurer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed7776666
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·001000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $259.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Denver Pet Partners’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

Denver Pet Partners leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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

80% 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 Denver Pet Partners.

65%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 52% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 49% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

40% of Denver Pet Partners's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

68% of Denver Pet Partners'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Colorado funders.

NY
CO
LA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’21
’22
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Denver Pet Partners runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin49% · top quartile
Months of reserve62.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

55% of spending goes to programs.

Program 55%Management 45%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds Denver Pet Partners?
Denver Pet Partners (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,103 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($27,542). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Denver Pet Partners have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $42,103 in grants to Denver Pet Partners, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Denver Pet Partners?
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,542 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Denver Pet Partners 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 9 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