Scooters Pals

What it reported doing in 2024

Scooter's Pals continues to be committed to be an all volunteer no paid staff rescue where all our resources go to the animals care.The collective impact of the pandemic has taken a substantial toll on our efforts and impacted our available resources both financial and with our volunteer base.Our inability to gather and meet in person has diminished our impact to our mission in subtle but substantial ways. Fund-raising has slowly lessened. And some expenses that can't be avoided such as vet services has increased. It has forced us to be more creative and driven to continue to aide abandoned dogs and cats to the extent our resources allow. We have had more call to assist dogs from the community to find new hones to avoid them going to shelters.Helping the displaced fire victims find temporary and in some instances permanent re-homes has been an increased need we meet to the extent possible. Social networking has been enormously helpful to us in these efforts. We have been forced by necessity to meet the community's changing needs. We are proud of our resourcefulness and how we have adapted to the changing world around us. Our devotion to abandoned animals and our community's animals in need drive our commitment to meet these needs. We still rescue as many dogs as we can find fosters and homes for and we continue to follow our safety and in-house procedures that protect the animals we help assist to stay alive and find good homes. We still take all our returned dogs back and either re-home them or place them in a safe Sanctuary setting for their remaining lifetime if they are not terminal but also not easily re-homed. Our focus is committed to the animals that are increasingly vulnerable to changes in a world they have no control over.Our mission has not changed and we put the safety concerns for the animals we help as our priority.We continue to share with other groups when we have excess food and goods for their animals. We constantly learn and grow and do our best for these animals in need.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 79.5%; rating input score 80
• Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $74.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd 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: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.19; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings