Charity Navigator's ratings previously did not consider Leadership & Adaptability, Culture & Community, or Impact & Measurement. The historic rating mainly reflects a version of today’s Accountability and Finance score. More information on our previous rating methodologies can be found on our rating methodology page.
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Friends of Rescue Animals cannot currently be evaluated by our Accountability & Finance methodology due to only having one year of electronically-filed IRS Form 990 data.
To ensure year-to-year consistency the Encompass Rating System's Accountability & Finance beacon analyzes the three-year average of some data provided through the IRS 990.
Charity Navigator currently only has one year of consecutive e-filed Forms 990 from the IRS for Friends of Rescue Animals under the EIN: 20-1606547.
Before Charity Navigator can evaluate Friends of Rescue Animals, Friends of Rescue Animals will need to e-file for additional fiscal years.
Revenue and expense data is not available for this organization. This data is only available if this organization has at least one year of electronically-filed Form 990 data filed within the last $six years.
Salary of Key Persons - No Data Available
No Data Available
Salary of Key Persons data is currently unavailable for this organization. This data is only available if this charity has at least one year of electronically-filed Form 990 data filed within the last 3 years. In some cases, there may be an electronically-filed 990 on file but the nonprofit may have not included the information and therefore we cannot post it.
IRS Published Data (Business Master File) - Data Available
Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes. 509(a)(2) (BMF foundation code: 16)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
Data Sources (IRS Forms 990) - Data Available
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage accountability and finance data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (Friends of Rescue Animals) or EIN (201606547) in the 'Search Term' field.
Impact & Measurement
Score
100
This beacon estimates the actual impact a charity has on the lives of those it serves, and determines whether it is making good use of donor resources to achieve that impact.
$113,175 total costs / 358 rescues = roughly $320 rescues one animal [2021 USD]
Program Context
FRAs Cat Rescue: The nonprofit rescues animals that would have otherwise been killed or left in some other bad condition. These animals are taken in and sheltered.
Data Time Period
9/1/22 to 8/31/23
Benchmark for Scoring
Impact scores of animal shelters are based on the cost a household spends saving the life of their pet. Programs receive an Impact score of 100 if they are less than 75% that cost and a score of 80 if they are less than 125%. If a nonprofit reports impact but doesn't meet the benchmark for cost-effectiveness, it earns a score of 65. The nonprofit shelters an animal for less than 75% the cost a household spends saving the life of their pet.
Methodology
This impact score was determined through the Animal Shelter methodology which is fully detailed in the Charity Navigator Guide to Ratings. Analysis conducted in 2024 by Charity Navigator using data submitted by the nonprofit, theory and evidence from scientific research studies, and public datasets.
Data Source
The nonprofit submitted cost data, the number of intakes, as well as how many animals received a "non-rescue" exit
Measurement
Unscored
0% of Impact & Measurement score
Culture & Community
Not Currently Scored
Friends of Rescue Animals cannot currently be evaluated by our Culture & Community methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its Constituent Feedback or Equity Practices strategies.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission.
Our mission is to provide resources, programs and education to promote adoption and care of homeless pets in our community.
Vision Statement
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
FRAs’ vision is a world where every companion animal has a safe and loving forever home.
Strategy Goals
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: Increase the number of heartworm positive shelter dogs treated for heartworm disease, which also increases potential for adoption or rescue.
Goal Two: Increase the number of cats adopted through our program, which also increases the number of cats spayed/neutered.
Leadership
30 out of 30 points
Full Credit
Partial Credit
No Credit
Investment in Leadership Development
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development.
Mindset that every dollar raised should go directly to benefitting the animals. We do not have any paid staff.
The President of the organization did invest her own time/money to obtain a Non-profit Leadership certificate on her own initiative.
External Focus on Mobilizing Mission
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
We partner with the two municipal animal shelters that we support -- Rowlett, TX and Garland, TX.
Adaptability
30 out of 30 points
Full Credit
Partial Credit
No Credit
Investment in Leadership Development
30 out of 30 points
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
In 2020 when we first started helping the Garland Animal Shelter, we were only able to sponsor one dog a month for heartworm treatment. We quickly saw that wasn't enough due to the high volume of intake at the Garland shelter.
By 2022, we were able to expand our support to include every HW+ dog that was adopted, but this meant they still had to wait for treatment until they were in a home. Also, we found that not every adopter would reach out to us to get the treatment scheduled, so some dogs never received treatment.
In early 2023, we approached the shelter about using their medical staff to treat EVERY HW+ dog as soon as it became available for adoption. Our proposal was if we covered the cost of the supplies would they administer the treatment. This would mean the dogs could even complete treatment before going home. It also meant the disease would not continue to worsen while they waited to be adopted. We started this new program in September 2023, which is the start of our fiscal year 2024.