Colorado · Nonprofit
SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY
SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,139 to it, the largest being THE FLIESBACH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($137,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $214k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary does
Mission
Animal rescue, rehabilitation, and lifelong sanctuary care. Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary provides rescue, rehabilitation, and lifelong care for animals including horses, reptiles, dogs, and other species. The organization focuses on low-stress handling, cooperative care, and welfare-centered management. Activities include daily husbandry, veterinary coordination, habitat maintenance, and behavioral support. In 2025, the organization provided ongoing care for resident animals and responded to neglect cases requiring intake, rehabilitation, and long-term placement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary provided daily care, rehabilitation, and long-term housing for animals including horses, reptiles, dogs, and other species. Services included feeding, habitat maintenance, veterinary coordination, farrier care, behavioral support, and low-stress cooperative care practices. In April 2025, the organization responded to a large-scale neglect case involving the intake and ongoing rehabilitation of 67 snakes, requiring significant resources for veterinary care, housing, and long-term management. In October 2025 the organization worked with an equine owner who was dealing with a permanent health issue precluding her from caring for her special needs horse suffering from chronic lameness and other health issues. The organization maintains a focus on welfare-centered, individualized care for all animals.
$136,757 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $136,757.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $35k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE 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
SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY: 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 SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY?
- SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,139 to it, the largest being THE FLIESBACH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($137,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $214,139 in grants to SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE SANCTUARY?
- THE FLIESBACH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $137,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRIT KEEPER EQUINE 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing