Pawfect Life Rescue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364757111
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Uxbridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5088643790
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal-Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $252,971
- Expenses
- $233,112
- Assets
- $636,633
- Liabilities
- $270,661
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE UTHOFF (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KAREN SHEEHAN (VICE PRESIDE): $32,340 total reported compensation
- ALLISON FORESTAL (DIRECTOR): $8,320 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to rescue, transport and provide veterinary care for abandoned and orphaned dogs from all over the united states. The organization is dedicated to placing these rescued dogs in responsible, loving homes, and educating the community on the importance of proper pet care.
What it reported doing in 2025
The rescue, transport, care and placement of abandoned and orphaned dogs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $175K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.