Friends of Animal Adoptions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411311053
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hastings, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6517728983
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,482,869
- Expenses
- $981,208
- Assets
- $3,265,708
- Liabilities
- $63,718
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENYSE MADDEN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LORRAINE ROYAL (EXECUTIVE DI): $82,002 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Friends of animal adoptions, inc. (the organization), is a Minnesota non- profit organization whose mission is to prevent cruelty to animals; provide shelter, emergency and other medical care; and to find good adoptive homes for cats, dogs, and other animals. In addition, to provide support education and charity that promotes the health, safety, and welfare of these animals within a no-kill philosophy, and to assure that homeless animals that come into its care are provided a safe haven for as long as necessary.
What it reported doing in 2025
Animal care and adoption - annually, the organization cares for and finds new homes for nearly 400 pets. As a no-kill facility, the organization will not end the life of an animal in its care unless the animal is terminally ill or presents a material danger to human safety that cannot be remediated through behavioral rehabilitation. Each pet is screened for potentially fatal illnesses, vaccinated, dewormed, provided with flea and tick prevention, micro-chipped, and spayed or neutered. Additionally, the organization provides each pet with daily care, including food, water, training, socialization, and medical care as needed until a new home can be found for them. It also partners with various animal control and impound centers, as well as other local rescue organizations, to assist in the rescue and transfer of animals for adoption.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.8%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,660.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.33; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.8% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $753K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.