Animal Advocacy Careers

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
861554905
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Anaheim, CA, USA
Phone
6575492952
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$623,496
Expenses
$371,344
Assets
$573,099
Liabilities
$9,746

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAUREN MEE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • KAROLINA SKOWRON-BAKA (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • LAUREN MEE (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $80,341 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Animal Advocacy Career's mission is to direct animal advocates to opportunities to achieve the highest impact possible through their careers.

What it reported doing in 2024

The organization runs a number of programs to solve the talent bottlenecks in the animal advocacy space. COMMUNICATIONS - serve to raise awareness of impactful career paths in animal advocacy, while reaching and acquiring new audiences to engage with all of our programs through email marketing, social media, and other channels. CANDIDATE DATABASE - focuses on retaining a list of highly qualified candidates to support animal protection organizations with recruitment needs. CAREERS ADVISING - We offer tailored one-to-one advising sessions to help individuals find their own path to contribute to the animal advocacy movement in an impactful way. GIVING FOR ANIMALS - encourages individuals to pledge a portion of their income to effective animal advocacy organizations. JOB BOARD - We run a specialized job board to connect mission-driven individuals with high-impact roles in the animal advocacy movement, including adjacent roles that help animals. Online Courses - gives individuals an overview of the animal advocacy movement, highlights a variety of possible career paths, and shares effective research and strategies for impactful advocacy. POLICY - The Impactful Policy Careers Accelerator is an in-person training, where participants work with subject matter experts to develop the skills needed to shape and influence animal welfare policies. RESEARCH AND M&E - We carry out research and monitor our impact to continuously improve our programs and help understand and reduce the key bottlenecks in the animal advocacy movement. WEBSITE & CONTENT - We create and maintain a free resource hub with articles, guides, and tools to help individuals build impactful careers helping animals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48.1%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $24.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 40.4%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 47.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 64% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48.1% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $294K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.