Teaching Everyone Animals Matter

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911825374
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sacramento, CA, USA
Phone
9163687387
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$168,797
Expenses
$118,365
Assets
$179,470

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Lisa Milanes (Chairman)
  • Robert Shanks (Vice Chair)
  • Sarah Strickler (Secretary)

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

Together with Animal Care and Regulation staff, TEAM Volunteers strive to: Increase adoptions of eligible animals, improve public awareness of animal care and responsbility issues, including the importance of spaying and neutering, raise funds to treat and care for the sick and injured animals taken in at the shelter and assist with efforts to make shelter animals more adoptable; expand humane education opportunities and provide foster care and breed rescue.

What it reported doing in 2025

Other Programs - Assist in improving the health, well-being, and adoption prospects of shelter animals at the Sacramento County Bradshaw Animal Shelter and throughout the Sacramento community by: funding specialized veterinary care and treatment for injured, sick, and neglected animals; financially supporting animal rescue efforts; purchasing much-needed, necessary medical equipment and supplies for the shelter's on-site surgery facility; funding spay and neuter clinics; sponsoring adoption fees; and providing financial assistance to other animal welfare organizations.

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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 29.9%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.52; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $109K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.