Save A Sato
Legal name: Save a Sato Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 660536302
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- San Juan, PR, US
- Phone
- 7875322060
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,188
- Expenses
- $936,195
- Assets
- $1,763,748
- Liabilities
- $609
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GLORIA MARTI (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA ROSARIO (TREASURER): $70,784 total reported compensation
- GLORIA MARTI (PRESIDENT): $27,330 total reported compensation
- RAQUEL MALARET (SECRETARY): $22,050 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Save A Sato is a non-profit organization dedicated to easing the suffering of Puerto Rico's homeless and abused animals. We rescue Satos from the streets and beaches, give them medical care, food and shelter, and plenty of love. When they are healthy, we send them to one of our partner shelters for adoption into loving homes.
What it reported doing in 2024
Save a sato is a non-profit organization committed to alleviating the suffering of puerto ricos homeless and abused animals. Sato is a local term used to describe a street dog. The organization rescues these animals from the streets and beaches, providing them with medical care, food, shelter, and compassion. Once they are healthy and ready, they are transferred to one of our partner shelters, where they are placed for adoption into safe and loving homes. Through these efforts, save a sato strives to promote animal welfare, educate the community, and give every sato a second chance at life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -843.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 58.5% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -36.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd 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: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $936K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $71K · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $114K reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.