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Telluride Humane Society Inc

Telluride Humane Society Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,055 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($56,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$174k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$193k
Net assets
$60k
8/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Telluride Humane Society Inc does

Mission

Organizations primary exempt purpose: telluride humane society is a nonprofit welfare organization dedicated to the compassionate rescue, spay/neuter, foster, adoption, medical care, education and community-oriented services for the pets and animals of san miguel county.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. A comprehensive adoption program that matches homeless animals with new pet owners. We went public in july 2019 and have rescued and re-homed 450 animals to present.

    $37,371 spent
    40% of program spending
  2. Affordable spay/neuter services open to the public. Since going public in july 2019 we have provided funding for 403 spay/neuter procedures.

    $46,714 spent
    50% of program spending
  3. A medical fund to assist qualified pet owners through tough financial times. Since going public in july 2019, we have provided medical funding to 11 qualified pet cases.

    $9,343 spent
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,428.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($25k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2020 Revenue 126 ($31k) Expenses 134 ($25k) Net assets 188 ($13k)2021 Revenue 633 ($155k) Expenses 670 ($123k) Net assets 640 ($45k)2022 Revenue 283 ($69k) Expenses 546 ($100k) Net assets 197 ($14k)2023 Revenue 631 ($155k) Expenses 783 ($144k) Net assets 708 ($50k)2024 Revenue 711 ($174k) Expenses 892 ($164k) Net assets 852 ($60k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (711)Expenses (892)Net assets (852)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 2022 to 2023, from $14k to $50k (+259%).

$7k
$13k
$45k
$14k
$50k
$60k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Telluride Humane Society Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’19
$6k
’20
$32k
’21
−$31k
’22
$11k
’23
$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $250 → $50k.

9 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 Telluride Humane Society Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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

Telluride Humane Society Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

72% 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 Telluride Humane Society Inc.

29%
largest funder
55%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 30% · 2023 33% — 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 Telluride Humane Society Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

72% of Telluride Humane Society Inc'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 $53k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states.

WI
MI
NY
CA
CO

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

Telluride Humane Society Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)48% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Telluride Humane Society Inc: 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 Telluride Humane Society Inc?
Telluride Humane Society Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,055 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($56,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Telluride Humane Society Inc have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $193,055 in grants to Telluride Humane Society Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Telluride Humane Society Inc?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Telluride Humane Society Inc 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 16 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