Caravita Foundation (Formerly Angels for Angels Foundation)

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991585525
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Aurora, CO, USA
Phone
9253538581
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$681,911
Expenses
$1,089,047
Assets
$195,330
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAUREN LUNDY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MAX COHEN (CO-FOUNDER & VP-FINANCE)
  • LAUREN LUNDY (PRESIDENT)
  • LINDSAY GASSEL (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

We create access to essential veterniary care including low cost spay and neuter, vaccines, and microchips, to encourage responsible pet ownership and transform communities from crisis to thriving.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, the Caravita Foundation achieved significant programmatic milestones in its mission to end unnecessary shelter euthanasia through expanded access to high-quality, low-cost spay and neuter services. The Foundation powered the opening of two dedicated spay and neuter hospitals Community Animal Treatment Center in Burbank, CA and Littlerock Pet Clinic in Littlerock, CA and facilitated 5,543 spay and neuter procedures across its service areas. At full operational capacity, these two hospitals alone will provide 20,000 low- and no-cost sterilization surgeries annually. The Foundation also launched its Ready to Go Home program, providing spay and neuter services directly to overburdened LA Animal Services shelters. By absorbing the surgical burden from shelter staff, the program accelerates the availability of adoptable animals and reduces the length of shelter stays a direct intervention in the euthanasia pipeline. To build a sustainable and engaged donor base, Caravita introduced the Spay & Neuter Club, a monthly giving program that invites donors to sponsor the sterilization of a homeless or owned pet each month connecting individual supporters directly to the Foundations frontline impact. For 2025, we powered (funded) one spay and neuter hospital (brick and mortar) in Burbank: Community Animal Treatment Center. They are on track to perform over 10,000 low cost sterilization surgeries per year.

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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -59.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 189.8% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -102.1% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $950K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.