Save-A-Mutt
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262802981
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-T 2022, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Silvana, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4252800502
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $295,326
- Expenses
- $326,173
- Assets
- $12,609
- Liabilities
- $18,337
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Ward (Co-Executive Director)
- Elizabeth Woche (Co-Executive Director)
- Ashley Brewer (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jennifer Ward (Co-Executive Director): $37,500 total reported compensation
- Elizabeth Woche (Co-Executive Director): $37,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Save-A-Mutt is dedicated to creating awareness about the number of adoptable dogs in shelters and find every dog its forever home! We do this by raising funds to A) cover the costs of transporting litters of puppies from high kill shelters to spay/neuter and adopt out; B) to provide medical care for special needs or injured dogs in our local shelter system; C) Focus on the welfare and final placement of Senior Dogs relinquished at area shelters, including medical, grooming and geriatric care. In addition, we hold a firm belief that Puppies aren't Products and hope to stop the sale of puppies and kittens in Washington State pet stores.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pet Adoption & Training: Save-A-Mutt is a volunteer run rescue that works to pull dogs from shelter systems and prepare them for forever homes. Save-A-Mutt's 'Foster First' program puts shelter dogs - from puppies to senior dogs - into foster homes. Once placed with a foster family, those dogs receive socialization, medical care and love! The family observes each dog and those observations help Save-A-Mutt place the dog in a forever home that is best suited for their personality and needs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $35.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -10.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.45; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $303K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $38K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.