Saving Great Animals

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800323640
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2069090119
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$815,781
Expenses
$837,849
Assets
$582,484
Liabilities
$8,761

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Perrin Kaplan (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jacintha Sayed (Director): $90,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Saving Great Animals rescues, rehabilitates, and re-homes dogs with an ethical and respectful approach of care, regardless of breed, health, or behavior. We strive to provide an excellent experience for our fosters, volunteers, and adopters and are dedicated to creating a community of responsible pet owners. We promise to make careful matches between dogs and adopters, to break the cycle of abandonment, and ensure that dogs do not re-enter the shelter system.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, Saving Great Animals rescued 460 dogs. Each dog was placed in a foster home and provided with medical care, spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations, and microchips. All dogs received behavioral assessments and training if needed. We worked with over 100 foster families and finalized 435 adoptions, ensuring that each dog was matched to the right home. Our team of over 300 dedicated active volunteers, including fosters, helped to transport dogs, run adoption events, and provide care for dogs going through rehabilitation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $25.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.7%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 92.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $774K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.