PetSmart Charities
Legal name: Petsmart Charities Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931140967
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, US
- Phone
- 1-800-423-7387
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,189,403
- Expenses
- $68,898,070
- Assets
- $96,825,290
- Liabilities
- $2,890,845
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AIMEE GILBREATH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NEAL LITVACK (CHAIR)
- ALAN SCHNAID (VICE CHAIR)
- BEN JACOBS (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We make the world a better place for pets by investing in community partners that advocate and care for the well-being of pets and all who love them.
What it reported doing in 2025
Supporting pets & people by keeping families together: we support pets and their families through programs that work to make veterinary care more accessible, help battle food insecurity, and provide disaster response in times of need. In 2025, we partnered with human services agencies to donate over $9.8m in pet food, totaling over 56 million meals, to support those facing pet food insecurity. We invested $17.6m in grants to fund programs that support accessible veterinary medicine models that bring more affordable vet care into communities. We also granted over $694,000 to support disaster response during 15 major natural disasters to help an estimated 11,000 pets stay with their families during times of crisis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 79% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- 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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.5%; rating input score 96; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 69.2%; rating input score 69; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $64M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.9M reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 656 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 655 filed related-organization links
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.