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NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS

NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS (Colorado) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,165 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($132,879). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$198k
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$445k
Net assets
$494k
20/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Northern Colorado Friends of Ferals does

Mission

All volunteer organization dedicated to bettering the lives of feral cats in northern colorado by trapping, sterilizing and returning feral cats to their colonies.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sterilization and vaccination of feral cats

    $119,746 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Adoption fees for spayed and neutered feral cats

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $119,746.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2018 Revenue 144 ($88k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets 112 ($87k)2019 Revenue 191 ($117k) Expenses 112 ($88k) Net assets 149 ($116k)2020 Revenue 344 ($210k) Expenses 108 ($85k) Net assets 310 ($242k)2021 Revenue 266 ($162k) Expenses 113 ($89k) Net assets 405 ($316k)2022 Revenue 275 ($168k) Expenses 125 ($98k) Net assets 494 ($385k)2023 Revenue 264 ($161k) Expenses 166 ($130k) Net assets 534 ($416k)2024 Revenue 324 ($198k) Expenses 152 ($120k) Net assets 634 ($494k)
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Revenue (324)Expenses (152)Net assets (634)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 2019 to 2020, from $116k to $242k (+108%).

$85k
$87k
$116k
$242k
$316k
$385k
$416k
$494k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,065 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
$9k
’18
$29k
’19
$126k
’20
$74k
’21
$70k
’22
$31k
’23
$78k
’24
49
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.

2020202220232024
Listed6777
Joined··+0+0
No longer listed··00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $13k → $49k.

5 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

49% 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 NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS.

30%
largest funder
46%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 95% · 2019 60% · 2020 35% · 2021 39% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% — 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

41% of NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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

NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 16 states in all.

ME
MI
NY
SD
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,443 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve48.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,443 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS?
NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS (Colorado) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,165 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($132,879). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $445,165 in grants to NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS?
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $132,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS 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 39 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