Charlies Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811685218
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4254446162
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $130,652
- Expenses
- $93,505
- Assets
- $44,979
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Teresa Ritzhaupt (President)
- Jenna D Brown (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Teresa Ritzhaupt (President)
- Jenna D Brown (Vice President)
- Nannette Brooks (Secretary)
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
Improve the lives of shelter dogs and provide necessary vet care for these seniors who would otherwise have nothing. We strongly believe and will strive to improve the quality of life for senior dogs left behind in shelters and in dire need of care and compassion in their golden years. We also believe in strong and ethical partner relationships, to include a all foster based rescue. We also will help educate owners who feel a shelter may be their only resource available for their senior companion.
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 found us intaking (18) cats (8) dogs, with an additional (9) cats (6) dogs (permanent foundation seniors). We helped less than previous years, (higher medical dogs/cats took longer to place & many were also under-socialized). 2025 was a year that also proved difficult in finding foster homes, cats and dogs that stayed longer in rescue due to forever homes not being found sooner. The average length of time was 4 months, (combination of limited foster homes and adoptions) kept us from being able to help more cats and dogs in need. We also said goodbye to several cats and dogs (more than in previous years). Animals are coming to us with more medical needs than weve ever seen.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.5%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 60.8%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 28.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 69.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.5% of revenue deployed · 60.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.