Luvin Arms
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474769645
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Erie, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7205158577
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,480,134
- Expenses
- $1,430,849
- Assets
- $3,795,837
- Liabilities
- $102,085
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shaleen Shah (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kelly Nix (Managing Director): $86,456 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide exceptional lifelong, social, emotional, and cognitive care to rescued farmed animals and advocate for animals who have not been rescued by sharing our residents' stories to inspire, educate, and empower others to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle.
What it reported doing in 2024
Animal Rescue and Providing Care: Luvin Arms provides caregiving staff, veterinary and medical costs, medical supplies, and food/shelter for all animals at the sanctuary. Emergency expenses for both small and large rescue animals, transportation, and short- and long-term animal housing are also offered. Residents at Luvin Arms learn fun and engaging activities such as name recognition, target touching, spinning in circles, and color differentiation. Clicker Play is a tool that creates a common language between animals and humans through rewarding cooperative behaviors with positive reinforcement. These activities provide the mental stimulation that these incredibly intelligent beings need and deserve to live a fulfilling life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 3.3%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.65; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.4% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.