The Forgotten Dog Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270916948
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
- Location
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3108803869
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $474,896
- Expenses
- $464,586
- Assets
- $108,711
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINZI GLASS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- JAMIE CONFER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LINZI GLASS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $21,336 total reported compensation
- GINA CASTILLO (SECRETARY TREASURER): $17,088 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To prevent cruelty to animals by rescuing, rehabilitating and sheltering animals and placing them in adoptive homes, and through educating the public about animal welfare, a subject useful to individuals and benefical to the community
What it reported doing in 2025
We rescue, rehabilitate and re home dogs of all shapes and sizes, but the majority of our dogs are under 20 pounds. These forgotten dogs are shelter dogs that were set to be euthanized, dog left in forclosures and starving strays running the dtreets. We takr in dogs that people can no longer afford to keep and abused dogs that are removed from their neglectful owners. We pride ourselfs on the fact that all of our, once rescued , go into foster homes, where they are cared for in a loving enviroment before being adpoted.our dogs are all vetted, groomed and fed wholesome food. Thgey go from scared and hungry to sassy and happy in just mere weekssince our formation as a non-profit in 2009, we have placed over 2000 dogs into loving homes. We do outreach spay/neuter programs and conduct educational programs so that people learn how to care for a pet properly.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 51
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.9%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.9% of revenue deployed · 70.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $327K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $21K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.