Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$203,797

Total expenses

$460,684

Contributions and grants received

$203,797

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$0

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$178,653

Total liabilities, end of year

$32,425

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$146,228

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$362,613

Management and general expenses

$98,071

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$362,613

Program services were 78.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• AWARENESS: EXPENDITURES RELATED TO RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT IMPORTANT ISSUES AND BUILDING SAVE ANIMALS MEMBERSHIP THROUGH A STRONG, CREDIBLE PUBLIC PRESENCE. IN SERVICE OF THE ORGANIZATION'S GOALS RELATED TO INFLUENCING GOVERNMENT POLICY, SAVE ANIMALS' GREATEST STRENGTH IS ITS EVER-GROWING GRASSROOTS MEMBERSHIP OF ACTIVISTS, SUPPORTERS, AND SMALL-DOLLAR DONORS INTERESTED IN CREATING CHANGE. SAVE ANIMALS' ENDEAVORS AT RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT THREATS TO WILDLIFE AND WHAT THE ORGANIZATION IS DOING TO PROTECT CRITICAL SPECIES HAVE BUILT, AND CONTINUE TO EXPAND, THE ORGANIZATION'S PROFILE AND MEMBERSHIP BASE. DURING 2024, THERE WERE 8,124 DIRECT VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENTS BY SAVE ANIMALS SUPPORTERS, COMPLEMENTED BY AN ADDITIONAL 81,837 VOLUNTEER SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENTS.

  Expenses $145,045

• MEMBER ENGAGEMENT: EXPENDITURES RELATED TO SAVE ANIMALS' EFFORTS TO INFORM MEMBERS ABOUT THREATS TO WILDLIFE AND PRESERVATION EFFORTS, ADVOCATE FOR CONSERVATION AND EFFECTIVE POLICY, AND ENGAGE SAVE ANIMALS MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS IN OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE AN IMPACT THROUGH GRASSROOTS ACTIVITY. ONE OF THE PRIMARY AVENUES FOR MEMBER COMMUNICATION IS SAVE ANIMALS' MEDIA PRESENCE AND ENGAGEMENT, WHICH SERVE BOTH TO FURTHER SAVE ANIMALS AS AN IMPORTANT AND CREDIBLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND TO AMPLIFY ISSUES IMPORTANT TO THE ORGANIZATION. SAVE ANIMALS ALSO COMMUNICATES EXTENSIVELY VIA EMAIL TO KEEP MEMBERS INFORMED AND READY TO MOBILIZE WITH GRASSROOTS ACTION WHEN AND WHERE IT CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE. IN 2024, OVER 3.7 MILLION INFORMATIONAL AND ALERT COMMUNICATIONS WERE SENT TO SAVE ANIMALS SUPPORTERS, ACHIEVING AN AVERAGE READERSHIP ENGAGEMENT RATE OF 32.2%.

  Expenses $108,784

• POLITICAL ADVOCACY: EXPENDITURES RELATED TO SAVE ANIMALS' GOALS OF ENDEAVORS AT RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT THREATS TO WILDLIFE AND WHAT THE ORGANIZATION IS DOING TO PROTECT CRITICAL SPECIES HAVE BUILT, AND CONTINUE TO EXPAND, THE ORGANIZATION'S PROFILE AND MEMBERSHIP BASE. INFLUENCING STATE, FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLICIES TO BETTER PROTECT CRITICAL WILDLIFE. EXPENDITURES IN THIS AREA INCLUDE COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT FOR WORK ENACTING, IMPLEMENTING AND PROTECTING RESTRICTIONS ON WILDLIFE POACHING, AND PRODUCTIONS AND TRAFFICKING OF PRODUCTS MADE ENDANGERED SPECIES, AND ADVERTISING TO VOTERS AND INDIRECT LOBBYING OF ELECTED OFFICIALS URGING SUPPORT FOR THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT AND OTHER MEASURES ALIGNED WITH SAFE'S GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. IN PURSUIT OF THESE AIMS, SAVE ANIMALS HAS GENERATED MORE THAN 600,000 MEMBER CONTACTS TO ADVOCATE FOR SPECIFIC POLICY, LEGISLATIVE, AND RULE-MAKING GOALS.

  Expenses $108,784

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

7 August 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202542209349301124

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