Friends of Second Chance Shelter Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 475312674
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2019–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location: Jamesville, NY, USA
Phone: 3154355584
Rating: 69
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $82,124
Expenses: $66,337
Assets: $108,703
Liabilities: $2,630

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

Debbie Hauswirth (Treasurer)
Ashley Rotella (Adoption Coordinator)
Joanna Parisi (Event Coordinator)

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

Reducing the euthanasia of healthy and adoptable dogs and increase the adoption of dogs that are trained by the inmates at Jamesville Correctional Facility. The inmate program includes a reduction in the

What it reported doing in 2025

Medical needs for the dogs are paid for, supplies and foodfor the dogs are purchased.

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 - 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 61
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 60
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 56.4%; rating input score 56
Program expense ratio: 69.8%; rating input score 70

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 56.4% of revenue deployed · 69.8% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
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 56/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.