Animal Investigation and Response
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474394007
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,668
- Expenses
- $98,554
- Assets
- $235,182
- Liabilities
- $3,811
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MONICA AILEY (President)
People named in this filing
- MONICA AILEY (President)
- REBECCA WHITEHOUSE (Director)
- STACY SUTTON KERBY (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Animal Investigation and Response is an animal protection organization that assists law enforcement, animal control agencies and communities with animal abuse related issues such as puppy mills and animal hoarding as well as disaster relief.
What it reported doing in 2025
AIR activities in 2025 included assistance in safely transporting coyotes rescued from the cruel confines of a urine farm to the safety of a wildlife sanctuary near San Antonio. We also supported law enforcement in a cockfighting case involving 96 live roosters. AIR volunteers and staff helped a long-time partner with over 500 Maltese saved from the deplorable conditions of a puppy mill. In addition, our investigations and emergency services teams fielded 52 calls for help with large scale situations (for ongoing investigations, setting up of emergency temporary shelters, transport, outreach, guidance in proceeding with cruelty or large-scale cases, testimony and case support) involving over 2893 animals in various situations of need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.1%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 39
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.8%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.1% of revenue deployed · 38.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.