Colorado · Nonprofit
PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS
PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,461 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($32,540). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Painted Paws for Veterans does
Mission
Painted Paws for Veterans is dedicated to promoting canine companion ownership for Veterans and their family members, especially those suffering from PTSD, in order to provide emotional support and a way to reconnect to life, both during and after military service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our primary program is to match up Veterans and their family members with dogs from kill shelters to provide companionship and emotional support. Twelve dogs were adopted through this program in the current year.
$93,709 spent70% of program spendingOur second program is to provide nutritional and medical support to service and emotional support animals of disabled Veterans so that Veterans are not forced to give them up due to an inability to provide care. We assisted forty two disabled Veterans through this program in the current year.
$30,790 spent23% of program spendingOur third program is to provide dogs to disabled Veterans, especially those with PTSD, for service and emotional support animals. Seven dogs were provided to disabled Veterans through this program in the current year.
$9,372 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $133,871.
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 2022 to 2023, from $50k to $88k (+75%).
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.
98% of PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $17k.
6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 53% · 2021 35% · 2022 45% · 2023 50% — 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
40% of PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS'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
91% of PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS
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.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS?
- PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,461 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($32,540). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $108,461 in grants to PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAINTED PAWS FOR VETERANS 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing