Shelter Animal Reiki Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263252392
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- San Rafael, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8057488983
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal-Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,869
- Expenses
- $44,324
- Assets
- $12,753
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEAH D'AMBROSIO (Vice President)
- KATHLEEN PRASAD (President)
People named in this filing
- LEAH D'AMBROSIO (Vice President)
- KATHLEEN PRASAD (President)
- Kelly McDermott Burns (Secretary/TREAS)
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
Teaches and promotes Animal Reiki through mindful meditation practices. The goal is to ensure better healing practices for shelter and sanctuary animals and to work closely with caregivers, veterinarians and volunteers to help create a positive healing space for all animals.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the Shelter Animal Reiki Association (SARA) demonstrated measurable impact across its core mission areas of education, professional development, and animal welfare advocacy.**Educational Programming & Community Outreach**SARA's Free Wednesday Support Sessions achieved a 200-300% increase in participant attendance year-over-year. These structured weekly sessions provided evidence-based education on animal welfare, care protocols, and complementary healing modalities. Guest experts delivered 30% of programming, ensuring diverse, qualified instruction for participants nationwide.**Geographic Expansion & Professional Credentialing**The organization's network of certified instructors expanded internationally, with active teaching programs operating in five countries: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, and Japan. SARA's membership grew to include five licensed veterinarians, demonstrating cross-disciplinary professional endorsement and scientific credibility of the organization's methods.**Revenue Generation & Sustainability**SARA executed multiple revenue-generating initiatives in fiscal year 2025, including a collaborative fundraising partnership that generated $10,000 in sales and yielded $5,000 for SARA representing the organization's highest single-event fundraising total. Three merchandise campaigns generated $4,600 in sales with 510 units purchased, creating both sustainable revenue streams and expanded public awareness of the organization's mission.**Industry Recognition & Quality Assurance**SARA achieved landmark third-party validation when the Canadian Reiki Association implemented a policy restricting Animal Reiki practitioner recognition exclusively to individuals certified in the Let Animals Lead methodologya framework developed by SARA co-founder Kathleen Prasad and practiced exclusively by all SARA members. This policy establishes SARA's methodology as the recognized standard within the field.The organization maintained dual accreditation with CPD Standards (Continuing Professional Development), ensuring all educational offerings meet independently verified standards for continuing education and affirming SARA's designation as an approved teaching body of excellence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 69.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2015 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.