Tripawds Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464636797
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Livingston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7078453129
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,083
- Expenses
- $74,144
- Assets
- $61,202
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jim Nelson (President)
- Ralph Kanz (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Jim Nelson (President)
- Rene Agredano (Secretary)
- Ralph Kanz (Vice President)
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
Helping amputee pets and their owners. The Tripawds Foundation maintains an educational forum, offers free resources and a financial assistance program for pet owners facing and living with amputation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide direct financial support for pet owners experiencing amputation and rehabilitation expenses for their pet. Additional programs include an online support community and guidance for amputee gear.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.4%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 50%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.4% of revenue deployed · 50% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.