Second Chance Animal Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472569139
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Water Valley, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6628012172
- Rating
- 97
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,532
- Expenses
- $87,285
- Assets
- $280,798
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA K BEARD (PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- AMANDA K BEARD (PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide care and homes for dogs
What it reported doing in 2025
A donor supported, grassroots organization that works to provide care and homes for the lost or neglected dogs captured by water valley, ms animal control.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.6%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.22; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.