Colorado · Nonprofit
Luvin Arms
Luvin Arms (Colorado) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,758,597 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($621,501). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Luvin Arms does
Mission
To provide exceptional lifelong, social, emotional, and cognitive care to rescued farmed animals and advocate for animals who have not been rescued by sharing our residents' stories to inspire, educate, and empower others to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Animal Rescue and Providing Care: Luvin Arms provides caregiving staff, veterinary and medical costs, medical supplies, and food/shelter for all animals at the sanctuary. Emergency expenses for both small and large rescue animals, transportation, and short- and long-term animal housing are also offered. Residents at Luvin Arms learn fun and engaging activities such as name recognition, target touching, spinning in circles, and color differentiation. Clicker Play is a tool that creates a common language between animals and humans through rewarding cooperative behaviors with positive reinforcement. These activities provide the mental stimulation that these incredibly intelligent beings need and deserve to live a fulfilling life.
$1,177,267 spent$69,326 earned by the program98% of program spendingEducation and Outreach - This includes educational tours (both in-person and virtual) and hosting groups and events such as schools, community groups, and companies throughout the year. Luvin Arms also participates in local and national conferences.
$22,039 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,199,306.
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 $2.6M to $3.7M (+42%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 7% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Luvin Arms’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $11k → $482k.
11 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 Luvin Arms’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
Luvin Arms leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% 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
89% 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 Luvin Arms.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 26% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 53% — 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
38% of Luvin Arms's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
83% of Luvin Arms'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 $299k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
Luvin Arms 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 Luvin Arms
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 Luvin Arms: 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 Luvin Arms?
- Luvin Arms (Colorado) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,758,597 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($621,501). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Luvin Arms have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $1,758,597 in grants to Luvin Arms, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Luvin Arms?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $621,501 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Luvin Arms 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 52 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