Colorado · Nonprofit
LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,194 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($299,269). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $796k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What La Plata County Humane Society does
Mission
Animal shelter, spay & neuter, humane treatment of animals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
2024 accomplishments: the lpchs shelter adopted over 1,700 pets and provided vaccinations, microchips, and medical care to over 4,000 pets in our community. The lpchs thrift store raised around 200,000 to help offset the costs of the shelter in 2024. 2025 goals: as an open admission no-kill shelter, lpchs will continue to provide shelter and care to all the vulnerable pets in our community. We will continue to raise funds at the thrift store to offset the cost of running a shelter and providing essential services to the pets in our community.
$1,682,390 spent$905,497 earned by the program77% of program spending2024 accomplishments: the lpchs' animal protection officers responded to over 2,500 calls including 263 cruelty cases. 2025 goals: lpchs animal protection officers will continue to protect vulnerable pets in our community; especially those involved in neglect and cruelty cases.
$504,613 spent$556,316 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,187,003.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.7M to $4.2M (+12%).
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: 2020 65% · 2021 41% · 2022 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY’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. 3 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 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $36k → $94k.
12 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% 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
82% 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 LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 54% · 2019 71% · 2020 55% · 2021 81% · 2022 58% · 2023 61% — 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
62% of LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY'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
74% of LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY'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 $209k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $587k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY (Colorado) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,194 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($299,269). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $796,194 in grants to LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $299,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA PLATA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY 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 34 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