Unleash the Paws
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 332747078
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tyler, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9032796115
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,596
- Expenses
- $78,730
- Assets
- $1,974
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DONALD COOPER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- AGNIESZKA COOPER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DONALD COOPER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TOMASZ STREKOWSKI (BOARD MEMBER)
- JUSTIN AUGUSTINI (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Animal rescue nonprofit dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming of abandoned, neglected, and injured animals. The organization provides direct care, veterinary treatment, and adoption services to improve animal welfare and reduce euthanasia rates. It also supports community animal welfare through education, outreach, and assistance programs. Funding is obtained through donations, fundraising campaigns, and online media content that supports the care and housing of rescued animals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our transport program supports the safe relocation of rescued animals to foster homes, veterinary partners, and adoptive families as needed. Operating in Texas, where shelters and rescue systems are significantly overwhelmed by the volume of animals in need, we are able to expand our lifesaving capacity by placing a substantial portion of our animals into out-of-state adoptive homes and partner organizations. This allows us to move animals more efficiently into appropriate care settings where adoption opportunities may be greater. Transport services include coordination, logistics, and the safe movement of animals requiring urgent placement, medical care, or transfer to rescue partners. This program plays a critical role in increasing lifesaving outcomes, reducing shelter overcrowding, and improving adoption access beyond our immediate region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.5%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 7; 7th 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 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.5% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.