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PAWS HELPING PEOPLE INC

EIN 27-5502745 SOQUEL, CA

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Revenue 2025
$82,709
Expenses 2025
$118,046

Program services were 70.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 441

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO FOSTER EMPATHY, RESPECT, AND RESPONSIBILITY IN YOUTH THROUGH THE HUMAN-ANIMAL BOND.

  • CANINES TEACHING COMPASSION IS AN ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY (AAT) PROGRAM THAT HELPS TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF KIDS AND SAVE THE LIVES OF DOGS BY MATCHING AT-RISK YOUTH AND SHELTER DOGS TOGETHER. THE YOUTH LEARN POSITIVE COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION WITH ONE ANOTHER THROUGH TEACHING THE DOGS GOOD MANNERS, SOCIAL SKILLS, AND BASIC COMMANDS. THIS TRAINING INCREASES THE DOGS' CHANCES OF BECOMING ADOPTED, WHILE IT TEACHES THE YOUTH IMPULSIVITY-CONTROL, MASTERY OF A SKILL, FUTURE ORIENTATION AND THE VALUE OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO OFFERS HUMANE EDUCATION TO AT-RISK YOUTH TO LEARN ABOUT ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, TRAINING METHODS, ANIMAL CARE, AND PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK WITH ANIMALS.

    Expenses $83,597 · Revenue $46,370

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Liz MacDonald

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alexa Frederick

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melissa Wolf

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Martha Spieller

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $82,709
    Expenses
    $118,046
    Contributions
    $36,294
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $214,916
    Expenses
    $184,195
    Contributions
    $194,771
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $190,644
    Expenses
    $115,612
    Contributions
    $179,239
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $136,419
    Expenses
    $69,244
    Contributions
    $132,272
    Grants paid
    not reported

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $179,562
    Expenses
    $101,331
    Assets (EOY)
    $240,258

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $113,144
    Expenses
    $155,729
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,666

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $212,876
    Expenses
    $146,784
    Assets (EOY)
    $204,612

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $134,687
    Expenses
    $118,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $138,700

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $141,966
    Expenses
    $93,545
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,315

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $97,258
    Expenses
    $54,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,975

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2015

Tax period
1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015
Principal officer
Melissa Wolf
Mailing address
Box 441Soquel CA 95073
Website
www.livingunchained.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.