Paw 4 the Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991224767
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,700
- Expenses
- $80,000
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charlotte Olhausen (President)
- Danny Adams (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Charlotte Olhausen (President)
- Danny Adams (Vice President)
- Melanie Long (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
Paw 4 The Foundation was formed to rescue rehabilitate and rehome animals in need with a focus on animals facing neglect abuse abandonment slaughter risk or other life-threatening situations. The organization provides veterinary care nutrition rehabilitation safe shelter and adoption placement for rescued animals while promoting responsible animal ownership humane education and animal welfare within the community. The foundations primary goal is to improve the lives of vulnerable animals by giving them a second chance through rescue recovery and permanent placement in safe and loving homes.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the year Paw 4 The Foundation rescued rehabilitated and provided ongoing care for animals suffering from neglect abuse abandonment owner surrender and slaughter risk. Program services included intake and assessment veterinary treatment vaccinations gelding when applicable nutritional rehabilitation farrier care for equines training behavioral support and placement into approved adoptive homes. The organization also provided sanctuary and long-term care for animals requiring specialized management including blind senior or medically vulnerable animals. In addition the foundation promoted humane education responsible ownership and community awareness through outreach fundraising events and adoption initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 90% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -43.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.