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PAWS Chicago

EIN 36-4219778Animals Illinois Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Pets are worth saving

PAWS Chicago is the city's largest no kill humane organization, focused on implementing solutions to end the killing of homeless pets. Since PAWS Chicago's founding in 1997, the number of homeless dogs and cats killed annually has dropped by nearly 80 percent: from more than 42,000 homeless pets killed in 1997 to under 10,000. PAWS Chicago is working to build a no kill Chicago - a city where pets are no longer destroyed just because they are homeless. PAWS Chicago will find new homes for nearly 6,000 homeless pets this year at the state-of-the-art Pippen Fasseas Lincoln Park Adoption, the satellite Glenn L. Felner North Shore Adoption Center and nearly weekly on- and off-site adoption events. The PAWS Chicago Lurie Spay/Neuter Clinic, the largest free spay/neuter clinic in Midwest, will sterilize more than 18,000 pets of low-income families this year.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

96.50Overall score
out of 100

95.06Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$17,856,964

Total expenses · USD$9,630,561

Program expenses

$8,503,785.36 recorded amount

88.3%

Fundraising expenses

$452,636.37 recorded amount

4.7%

Administrative expenses

$654,878.15 recorded amount

6.8%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.03 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Kristin Pearson
Recorded compensation: $164,127.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.70%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for PAWS Chicago
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Animals
`description` Mission & description	PAWS Chicago is the city's largest no kill humane organization, focused on implementing solutions to end the killing of homeless pets. Since PAWS Chicago's founding in 1997, the number of homeless dogs and cats killed annually has dropped by nearly 80 percent: from more than 42,000 homeless pets killed in 1997 to under 10,000. PAWS Chicago is working to build a no kill Chicago - a city where pets are no longer destroyed just because they are homeless. PAWS Chicago will find new homes for nearly 6,000 homeless pets this year at the state-of-the-art Pippen Fasseas Lincoln Park Adoption, the satellite Glenn L. Felner North Shore Adoption Center and nearly weekly on- and off-site adoption events. The PAWS Chicago Lurie Spay/Neuter Clinic, the largest free spay/neuter clinic in Midwest, will sterilize more than 18,000 pets of low-income families this year.
`ein` EIN	36-4219778
`tot_exp` Total expenses	9630561.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.068
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.03
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.047
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.883
`fscore` Financial score	95.06
`leader` Recorded leader	Kristin Pearson
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	164127.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.017
`motto` Tagline	Pets are worth saving
`name` Charity name	PAWS Chicago
`tot_rev` Total revenue	17856964.0
`score` Overall score	96.5
`state` State code	IL
`subcategory` Subcategory	Animal Rights, Welfare, and Services
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	8503785.363
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	452636.367
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	654878.148

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 36-4219778
Source category: Animals
Source subcategory: Animal Rights, Welfare, and Services
Recorded location: Illinois (IL)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.