Colorado · Nonprofit
VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE
VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,301 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($10,000). 2 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
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Veterans Puppy for Life Dba Heros Puppy for Life does
Mission
Providing service puppies for veterans and first responders with ptsd to date 96 puppies have graduated as ada compliant service dogs since 2016
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
10 puppies graduated this year
$37,400 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,400.
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 2017 to 2018, from $34k to $6k (−83%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 41% · 2021 22% · 2022 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
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.
Chief executive
Frank Griggs
CEO and chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $1k.
3 of 6 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 VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE’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
VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 93% · 2021 68% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — 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
72% of VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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
VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE: 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 VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE?
- VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,301 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($10,000). 2 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 VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $26,301 in grants to VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS PUPPY FOR LIFE DBA HEROS PUPPY FOR LIFE 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 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