Every number with its method, and every filing.
Three Form 990s, the reviewed statements, the IRS letter, the state licence number and the county contract, on one page. One rescue in ten puts its 990 on its own website; the rest send funders to look elsewhere. Every document here is a labelled sample, because the rescue is invented.
Three 990s, the review, the letter
The three most recent Form 990s are listed by themselves; older years drop off. A rescue this size has a review, not an audit, and says so. Every document is a labelled sample: the rescue is invented, and so are the figures.
What each one says
Form 990, Part I is the one-page summary: what came in, what went out, what is left. Part IX splits every dollar into program, management and fundraising. Part III is the story in words: how many animals, how many adoptions, the live-release rate.
The review is what a rescue this size has instead of an audit: an accountant checks the statements without the full audit procedures, and says so on the first page.
The IRS letter is what makes gifts deductible. The sample presents what the letter states in the rescue's own typography, on purpose, so that nobody can mistake a demonstration document for a government one.
The year
$584,000 in, $561,000 out, and $23,000 to reserves, which stand at about three months of expenses. Cost per animal in care: $561,000 over 612 intakes, about $917.
PACFA-00000-CRA
Colorado licenses shelters and rescues under the Pet Animal Care Facilities Act and inspects them. Our licence number is a sample; a real one is issued by the Department of Agriculture and can be checked on its site. Source: Pet Animal Care Facilities Act, Colorado Department of Agriculture.
Stated, not advised: this site reports the rule and links the page that governs it.
240 animals, $38,000
The county shelter transfers dogs and cats to us under a contract renewed each January: it pays a flat fee per animal that covers about a third of the cost of its care, ownership passes to us on the day of transfer, and we report each animal's outcome back monthly. In 2025 that was 240 of the 612 animals that came in. The contract is a public record at the county; this paragraph is the whole of what it says that matters to an adopter.
The numbers
Every intake logged in the shelter software on the day it arrived, including the 240 transferred from the county shelter under the contract. Litters count each animal.
Adoptions with a signed contract and a paid fee, 318 dogs and 253 cats. Animals returned within thirty days and re-adopted are counted once.
Counted the Shelter Animals Count way: live outcomes (adoption, return to owner, transfer) divided by all outcomes, on the basic data matrix. Died in care and euthanasia are the other four percent, and they are reported, not hidden.
Dogs 23 days, cats 31, from intake to the day the animal left. The median is lower; a few long-stay animals pull the average up, and their names are on the Adopt page.
2025 expenses of $561,000 divided by 612 intakes. It includes everything: veterinary care, staff, the building, food, administration and fundraising. A single surgery can cost more than this on its own.
Counted from the animal sheet on this site: every animal marked adopted with a date this year. It grows as staff mark them, and it is the number the 990 for 2026 will report.
Every number on this site comes with the sentence that says how it was counted. The live-release rate follows the Shelter Animals Count basic data matrix, which is the way most shelters that publish one count it, so that two rescues' numbers can be compared. Died in care and euthanasia are reported inside it, not left out.