Colorado · Nonprofit
Hands Off My Hat
Hands Off My Hat (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being FORWARD DENVER ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Our Community Our Futureshared funders
- Dr Mary Bates Trust Fundportfolio match
- Animal Assistance Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Hands Off My Hat’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Hands Off My Hat's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Our Community Our Futureshared fundersCO · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Dr Mary Bates Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Animal Assistance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Humane Leagueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Elizabeth Bates Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alice Jenkins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Candis J Stern Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lucile Drinkwater Allen Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unite for Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tigertree Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lauretta Boyd Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Hands Off My Hat
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hands Off My Hat: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Hands Off My Hat?
- Hands Off My Hat (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being FORWARD DENVER ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hands Off My Hat have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $150,000 in grants to Hands Off My Hat.
- Who is the largest funder of Hands Off My Hat?
- FORWARD DENVER is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hands Off My Hat 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing