Pals4paws
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873342654
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Anacortes, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603332709
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,391
- Expenses
- $92,485
- Assets
- $71,118
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vicki Fishfader (President)
- Angela Sisney (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Vicki Fishfader (President)
- Sean Bartlett (Treasurer)
- Tracy Speed (Secretary)
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
Animal Rescue. Pals4Paws' single purpose is to assist small and rural animal shelters, rescues and sanctuaries with grants to provide for basic and urgent needs such as veterinary care, food and supplies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pals4Paws' single purpose is to assist small and rural animal shelters, rescues and sanctuaries with grants to provide for basic and urgent needs such as veterinary care, food and supplies. We are an all-volunteer 501 (c) (3) non-profit group of animal lovers seeking to help support basic needs of small and rural shelters, rescues, and sanctuaries through grants. Together with our donors, we specifically support small and rural shelters and rescues that may not have fancy facilities or glamorous fundraisers. We seek to support those that are doing great work but need funding for basic needs such as food, beds, and cleaning supplies. We do the work of finding the places where smaller grants can have a big impact. We provide grants for many types of rescue animals...we love them all!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 11.4%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -150% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.