San Francisco SPCA
San Francisco SPCA
San Francisco CA | IRS ruling year: 2001 | EIN: 94-0836580
Organization Mission
Our mission is to ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
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San Francisco CA | IRS ruling year: 2001 | EIN: 94-0836580
Organization Mission
Our mission is to ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
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Score
Most Recent Fiscal Year:
FY 2022
This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies.
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Industry professionals strongly recommend an independent governing body to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters. We check to see that a majority of board members are identified as independent on their tax form.
Source: IRS Form 990
Industry professionals strongly recommend an independent governing body to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters. For most organizations, we check to see if the organization has at least three independent board members. For large, donor-funded organizations, we check to see if the organization has at least five independent board members
Source: IRS Form 990
An Audit, Review, or Compilation provides important information about financial accountability and accuracy. Organizations are scored based on their Total Revenue Amount:
Total Revenue Amount | Expectation to Receive Credit |
$2 million or higher and 40% or higher donor support | Expected to complete an audit and have an audit oversight committee |
$1 million or higher | Expected to complete an audit |
$500,000 - $1 million | Expected to complete an audit, review, or compilation |
Less than $500,000 | No expectation (removed from scoring methodology) |
Source: IRS Form 990
A diversion of assets — any unauthorized conversion or use of the organization's assets other than for the organization's authorized purposes, including but not limited to embezzlement or theft — also can seriously call into question a charity's financial integrity. We review the charity's most recent IRS Form 990 to see if the charity has reported any diversion of assets.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for a website on the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency metric.
Nonprofits act in the public trust and reporting publicly on activities is an important component.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a conflict of interest policy on the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy protects the organization and by extension those it serves, when it is considering entering into a transaction that may benefit the private interest of an officer, director and/or key employee of the organization.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a whistleblower policy per the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy outlines procedures for handling employee complaints, as well as a confidential way for employees to report financial or other types of mismanagement.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a document retention and destruction policy per the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy establishes guidelines for the handling, backing up, archiving and destruction of documents. These guidelines foster good record keeping procedures that promote data integrity.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks to confirm on the IRS Form 990 that the organization has this process in place as an accountability and transparency measure.
An official record of the events that take place during a board meeting ensures that a contemporaneous document exists for future reference.
Source: IRS Form 990
For almost all charities, we check the charity's IRS Form 990 to see if it discloses that the Form 990 is available on the charity's website. As with the audited financial statement, donors need easy access to this financial report to help determine if the organization is managing its financial resources well.
Source: IRS Form 990
The Liabilities to Assets Ratio is determined by Total Liabilities divided by Total Assets (most recent IRS Form 990). This ratio is an indicator of an organization's solvency and/or long-term sustainability.
Source: IRS Form 990
The Program Expense Ratio is determined by Program Expenses divided by Total Expense (average of most recent three IRS Forms 990). This measure reflects the percent of its total expenses a charity spends on the programs and services it exists to deliver.
Source: IRS Form 990
This chart displays the trend of revenue and expenses over the past several years for this organization, as reported on their IRS Form 990.
Presented here are up to five of this organization's highest compensated employees. This compensation data includes salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and is displayed exactly how it is reported to the IRS. The amounts do not include nontaxable benefits, deferred compensation, or other amounts not reported on Form W-2. In some cases, these amounts may include compensation from related organizations. Read the IRS policies for compensation reporting
Howard Chi, Chief Operating Officer
$424,237
Jennifer Scarlett, Chief Executive Officer
$327,045
Mary D'agostino, Svp Of Community Engagement
$259,814
Alice Jordan, Chief People Officer
$256,453
Jeannine Berger, On-call Veterinarian
$251,237
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2022
Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Foundation Status:
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)
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)
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability 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 (San Francisco SPCA) or EIN (940836580) in the 'Search Term' field.
Not Currently Scored
San Francisco SPCA cannot currently be evaluated by our Impact & Results methodology because either (A) it is eligible, but we have not yet received data; (B) we have not yet developed an algorithm to estimate its programmatic impact; (C) its programs are not direct services; or (D) it is not heavily reliant on contributions from individual donors.
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.
Not Currently Scored
San Francisco SPCA 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.
Score
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.
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The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission
Our mission is to ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
For over 150 years, the San Francisco SPCA has provided care and protection for animals in need. Our
Source: Nonprofit submitted responses
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: Access to Care Making more preventative veterinary services available to more people and in more ways. Our goal is for all San Francisco pets and guardians have access to humane care by 2030.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Two: Shelter Leadership Collaborating with colleagues, experts, and volunteers at other shelters so that all communities can improve the outcome for their animals.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Three: Advocacy The SF SPCA founded Shelter PALS and is defining a new discipline of animal law. It is an effort supported by distinguished legislative strategists and eminent litigators.
Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development
Describe an investment in leadership
The SF SPCA has a dedicated Learning and Development Team to provide training and growth opportunities for all SF SPCA staff and leaders.
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:
Strategic Partnerships
Networks of Collective Impact Efforts
Thought Leadership
Raising Awareness
Community Building
Policy Advocacy
What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?
The animals that make their way to rescues and shelters in San Francisco, and other cities like ours, are the lucky ones. We believe that every shelter in California should have the tools to practice humane care, so more communities in California are able to keep and care for their pets. Over the next decade, we will focus on building alliances with shelters throughout the state to create transfer networks — like we have with SF Animal Care and Control and our partners in the Central Valley — but also to bolster communities’ abilities to keep their animals local. Furthermore, we will continue to expand our advocacy efforts across the state. The SF SPCA founded Shelter PALS (Policy and Legal Services) and is defining a new discipline of animal law. It is an effort supported by distinguished legislative strategists and eminent litigators contributing their talents to defining and defending the rights of animals throughout California.
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
In 2019, we prepared the blueprint for our new strategic plan, Vision 2030, which will allow us to positively impact millions of animals’ lives through our program pillars of Access to Care, Shelter Leadership, and Advocacy. Our timing was prescient given that no one could have predicted the dire socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on our community. Thanks to our dedicated supporters, we introduced community-based, affordable veterinary services with a Walk-In Wellness Clinic. We purchased a new van to transfer sick animals from our Central Valley partners to our hospital to receive care prior to adoption. And with the intent to dramatically reduce the number of animals suffering in shelters throughout the state, we launched Shelter PALS, the country’s first free legal and policy services program for shelters. Our committed community of donors has helped keep us on solid financial footing, so when COVID-19 hit in March 2020, we were well positioned to respond with innovation versus indecision. Our Shelter PALS team immediately lobbied for legislation to recognize animal sheltering as an essential service. We then created emergency animal sheltering protocols shared by the California Department of Public Health, which were downloaded more than 1,000 times by shelters throughout California. While we were helping other shelters, we were also reorganizing our own foster and adoption processes with digital and one-on-one appointments. Our foster parents served as a relief gateway to get animals out of the shelter; more than 100 dogs and cats were transferred into the safety of foster homes. Finally, we were able to introduce telemedicine services and expand emergency hospital hours to care for an influx of patients. It is because of the supporters who stood with us for more than 150 years that we were able to confidently and flexibly pivot protocols to continue our lifesaving work.
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