Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Oct 1998.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
86 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
10 people listed on the 990.
Kriistle M Kamailo’s $1K as Director is at the 1st percentile of top reported officer pay among 1221 $100K–1M animals nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
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Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aNo
Programs and updates
Rescues, treats, and finds homes for adoptable cats and dogs, promoting humane treatment and spay/neuter.
Questions for Safe Haven
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Adoption of Animals
To provide shelter, veterinary care, food and necessities for abandoned cats and dogs until adopted into a permanent home. For 2020, there were 69 cats and 88 dogs placed into a permanent home.
Low cost SPAY/NEUTER program to reduce the overpopulation of cats and dogs in jo daviess COUNTY.OWNER provides a small co-pay and safe haven pays the balance of the veterinarian costs of the SPAY/NEUTER surgery. For 2020, there were 55 cats and 6 dogs treated under the program.
We believe people need to keep their pets and themselves healthy. Proper food is an important means to that end. The reality of today is that many people find themselves in circumstances where food banks are an important source of nutrition and each year the need grows.
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Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2020 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY20 | End FY20 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $149K | $150K |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $277K | $329K |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $332K | $323K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $760K | $808K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $2K | $20K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $759K | $788K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $91K | $91K | ||
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $7K | $7K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $10K | $10K | ||
| Investment management feesLn 11f | $3K | $3K | ||
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $172 | $172 | ||
| Office expensesLn 13 | $9K | $2K | $5K | $3K |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $4K | $4K | ||
| OccupancyLn 16 | $20K | $20K | ||
| TravelLn 17 | $3K | $3K | ||
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $88 | $88 | ||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $16K | $16K | ||
| InsuranceLn 23 | $4K | $2K | $1K | |
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $29K | $28K | $1K | |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $197K | $170K | $24K | $3K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest | $352K | $369K | −$17K | $916K | 990 PDF |
| FY2024 | $311K | $337K | −$26K | $906K | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | $326K | $307K | $19K | $924K | 990 PDF |
| FY2022 | $283K | $271K | $13K | $872K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021 | $308K | $228K | $80K | $911K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020 Viewing | $206K | $197K | $9K | $788K | 990 PDF |
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Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2020 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $206,104 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 10 of 10 board members independent, 4 to look at
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $206,104 across 10 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $197,129 across 13 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $808,191 assets, 14 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $788,424 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2020 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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