Colorado · Nonprofit
PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY
PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY (Colorado) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,558 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($156,336). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $410k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Peppers Senior Dog Sanctuary does
Mission
Pepper's senior dog sanctuary provides senior dogs a compassionate, furever home at our veterinarian-supervised sanctuary. Pepper's exists to help ease the overcrowding of local shelters, while providing quality lifelong care to dogs who may otherwise have been euthanized.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The care team include 321 active volunteers that show up rain or shine, to walk, feed, clean, and comfort. They hold space for grief and celebrate every tail wag. They are the soul of pepper's.
$624,432 spent53% of program spendingOur onsite medical team has special training in rehabilitation and hospice care, allowing them to provide comprehensive medical care for our dogs. Treatments include routine examination, preventative care, acupuncture, physical rehabilitation (hydrotherapy, laser therapy, massage, etc), and surgery. When psds seniors reach the end of their life here with us, our team provides round the clock hospice care to ensure a peaceful and dignified passing.
$535,260 spent$7,963 earned by the program45% of program spendingOur sanctuary has become a place where healing flows in both directions. In 2025, we partnered with over 60 organizations, from autism support programs to senior centers. These partnerships allow us to bring the calming, grounding presence of senior dogs to people who benefit deeply from their companionship. Watching a member of our neuro diverse community gently read aloud to an aging chihuahua or seeing a senior citizen in memory care light up when a grey -muzzled pug climbs into their lap - these moments stay with you.
$21,861 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,181,553.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $4.5M (+188%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY’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. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Jon Sands
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $55 → $106k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 63% · 2023 42% — 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
50% of PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 47% 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
76% of PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY'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 $100k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY?
- PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY (Colorado) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,558 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($156,336). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $409,558 in grants to PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $156,336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEPPERS SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 30 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