Animal Friends Alliance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
204969731
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2021
Location
Fort Collins, CO, USA
Phone
9704848516
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,681,276
Expenses
$5,033,527
Assets
$6,928,638
Liabilities
$1,667,795

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENNA RIEDI (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SARAH SWANTY (EXECUTIVE DI): $130,713 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

It is the mission of animal friends alliance to provide comprehensive companion animal resources, services, education to the community to prevent homelessness and promote human-animal bond. Our vision is that all companion animals experience a healthy home where they are wanted, cared for, and loved. The alliance is accomplishing this by providing sheltering and adoption services for homeless cats and dogs, and providing community pet resources such as subsidized veterinary care and pet food in an effort to keep as many animals as possible in their loving homes.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community pet resources: this program consists of: a. Public veterinary clinic, which provides subsidized spay/neuter procedures for dogs and cats belonging to members of the general public and to other animal shelters and rescue organizations. Low-cost vaccination clinics are also offered several times per month. This program includes the pal program, which provides free services for those who qualify. B. Community cat program traps, spays/neuters and vaccinates feral cats and either finds loving homes or returns them to safe outdoors. C. Kibble supply pet food pantry offers free pet food and supplies, much of which is donated by local businesses and the general public. D. Dog behavior services at a subsidized price for community members who need help in an effort to prevent their dog from being surrendered to a shelter. E. Humane euthanasia services at a subsidized price for low-income community members.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.1%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.1% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.