CoPilot Animal Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833076805
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sanger, TX, USA
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,970
- Expenses
- $99,964
- Assets
- $279
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lisa Law (President)
- Lindsay Pate (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sarah Spikeston (Treasurer)
- Sally Amendola (Secretary)
- Lisa Law (President)
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
CoPilot Animal Rescue CAR is a North Texas based non-profit animal rescue and sanctuary that adopts out animals locally and nationwide. CoPilot Animal Rescue seeks to provide homes for abused lost abandoned and neglected animals. With our trusty team of Copilots we seek to make the world a better place for those who are often misunderstood.
What it reported doing in 2025
CAR specializes in animal welfare kennel maintenance veterinary care and rescue boarding temporary boarding for nonprofit rescue partners that fulfills our mission and helps get dogs off euthanasia lists and vetted before transport or adoption. We also drive and fly animals into long-term supportive homes nationwide and partner with other rescue organizations who help feed care and rescue animals. During 2025 CoPilot Animal Rescue took in 18 animals placed 12 in foster care returned 3 to partner rescues completed 11 transports to long-term supportive homes nationwide provided 38 veterinary visits 14 spay neuter surgeries 11 vaccination events and 20 parasite treatments and adopted out 13 animals to permanent homes. CAR also provided 30 boarding intakes on behalf of partner rescue organizations to support their pulls from euthanasia lists and other rescue operations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.