Friends of Austin Animal Services
Legal name: Friends of Austin Animal Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205687086
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- Phone
- 5129403994
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $183,475
- Expenses
- $197,666
- Assets
- $237,093
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY WELLS (CO-PRESIDENT)
- GINA DESTAFFANY (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SONAL PATEL (MEMBER AT LARGE)
- WILLIAM LEHNER (Treasurer)
- EMILY WELLS (CO-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
To improve and enrich the lives of companion animals, with special emphasis on those in the Austin Animal Services system, and to support the people who care for them.
What it reported doing in 2025
Austin animal center cares for as many as 18,000 pets each year. Their city budget can only go so far, so friends of aac help provide the additional resources they lack. The organization works hard by partnering with the austin animal center to keep pets in homes, help get pets adopted, and improve the quality of life for animals in the shelter. Our projects include lifesaving medical care, enrichment and training support, and facilities enhancement.
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.7%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 64; 64th 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: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 99.9% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $183K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.