Rescue Crew Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822481298
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Andover, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6127992435
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $436,092
- Expenses
- $436,831
- Assets
- $27,592
- Liabilities
- $11,574
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher A Maddox (President)
People named in this filing
- Christopher A Maddox (President)
- Angie Weum (Secretary)
- Misty J Swanson (Treasurer)
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 save the lives of companion animals in need -- including those who are homeless abandoned neglected or at risk. Through compassion kindness and care we help them heal and thrive ultimately becoming cherished family members in loving homes.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Rescue Crew is a foster-based animal rescue organization dedicated to reducing unnecessary euthanasia and increasing live release rates through the rescue rehabilitation foster placement and adoption of companion animals in need. The organization partners with municipal shelters animal control facilities and organizations providing on-the-ground animal welfare services in under-resourced communities including tribal reservations to transfer animals into foster-based care. Animals receive comprehensive veterinary services including spay neuter vaccinations microchipping parasite prevention and medical treatment as needed. Animals may also receive behavioral support and rehabilitation to improve adoption outcomes. The Rescue Crew also operates The PURRfect Match Cat Adoption Center a community-based adoption center designed to increase visibility and adoption opportunities for cats particularly adult and long-stay cats. During 2025 the organization rescued and provided care for 604 companion animals and facilitated 628 adoptions throughout Minnesota
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.7%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 64.6%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 1st 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.7% of revenue deployed · 64.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $282K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 40 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OfficeExpenses column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.