Chicago Rescue Authority
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934722970
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 9897378455
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $136,208
- Expenses
- $133,906
- Assets
- $2,302
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Megan VanParis (President, Co-Founder)
People named in this filing
- Megan VanParis (President, Co-Founder)
- Serenity Hernandez (Treasurer, Co-Founder)
- Jessie Ray (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
All-breed dog rescue -- We rescue, provide vital care, and adopt out dogs in the Chicagoland area. We also place an emphasis on educating the public about responsible pet ownership and ways to help lessen the pet overpopulation problem facing our city.
What it reported doing in 2025
Food costs for animals in our care -- expenses in this category represent expenses incurred for purchasing food for the animals in our care throughout the year. Please note that much of these needs were sponsored by donated food, but the amount represented here is the out-of-pocket expense for the rescue to cover the remaining amount of food needed to sustain the animals in our care that were not covered by in-kind food donations.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 83.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 76.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -142% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.4% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.