Safe Humane
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364366285
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3124094790
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,881
- Expenses
- $95,279
- Assets
- $173,873
- Liabilities
- $1,338
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cynthia Bathurst (CEO)
- Kimberly BoggsJD (President)
People named in this filing
- Cynthia Bathurst (CEO)
- Kimberly BoggsJD (President)
- Lynsey Sloan (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
Create safe and humane communities by inspiring positive relationships between people and animals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Individual dog programs: Individual dog programs included (1) our legacy Court Case Dogs aka CCDs programs, supporting previously approved CCDs, conducting dog behavioral consultations in person or virtually, free of charge, to CCD families, conducting interviews and disseminating success stories on social media, documenting procedures for application to new abused shelter dog programming and sharing with other organizations for implementing their own CCD programs, and (2) Program Dogs: CACC shelter dogs were assessed for participating in our Lifetime Bonds programs, manners and skills classes, and corporate / group volunteer events. These Program Dogs became part of a broader program, PALs, which also incorporates our existing Ambassador Dogs. 150 hours of assessments amd 75 hours in classes resulted in approving 135 Program Dogs and helping many others.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.5%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
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: 14.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.5% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.