Saving One Life
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271173539
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Chandler, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6027152700
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $412,996
- Expenses
- $409,902
- Assets
- $49,051
- Liabilities
- $396
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carrie Neidorf (President)
- Adrienne Mulligan DVM (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Carrie Neidorf (President)
- April Lefever (Secretary/Treas)
- Adrienne Mulligan DVM (Vice President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide shelter and medical care to animals who were stray, abandoned, and surrendered to local shelters and at great risk for euthanasia; with the purpose of finding permanent adoptive homes, to participate in the greater community's effort to reduce overpopulation by providing trap-neuter-release opportunities. To provide a permanent and loving sanctuary to felines who may not thrive in a normal home environment, and to provide education regarding responsibilities related to being a pet parent.
What it reported doing in 2024
Adoptions and TNR/Colony Care: Remove animals from shelters who are at risk for euthanasia as well as from the community, place in foster homes for complete vetting (alter, vaccines, microchipping, veterinary care, deworming). When ready, place for adoption and find suitable forever homes. During 2024, the organization took in over 1,400 animals and placed 1,286 into adoptive homes. Saving One Life participates in the greater community's effort to reduce overpopulation by providing TNR (trap-neuter-release) opportunities as well as to provide food to colonies of feral cats. In 2024, the organization TNR'd over 300 cats.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 0.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 90.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $372K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.