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DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA - DCRSA

EIN 47-3983524 SAFFORD, AZ

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Revenue 2025
$169,346
Expenses 2025
$218,396

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
4000
Street
6905 S STOCKTON MESA DR

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

DESERT CAT RESCUE & SANCTUARY OF ARIZONA IS DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE LIVES OF CATS THROUGH RESCUE, REHABILITATION, FOSTER CARE, AND ADOPTION. THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDES LIFESAVING CARE FOR HOMELESS, ABANDONED, NEGLECTED, AND AT-RISK CATS WHILE PROMOTING RESPONSIBEL PET OWNERSHIP

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $218,396 · Grants $34,500 · Revenue $169,314

As filed on the 2025 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Cheryl Christensen

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Canute Christensen

    PRESIDENTCEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Esther Jones-McDonald

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    19

  • Doris Kempton

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Carolyn Vessels

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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
    $169,346
    Expenses
    $218,396
    Contributions
    $169,314
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $228,081
    Expenses
    $229,898
    Contributions
    $228,045
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,944,045
    Expenses
    $4,940,623
    Contributions
    $4,944,009
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $196,359
    Expenses
    $212,353
    Contributions
    $196,357
    Grants paid
    $0

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

    Revenue
    $184,773
    Expenses
    $155,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $57,136

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $81,191
    Expenses
    $70,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,602

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $43,324
    Expenses
    $46,809
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,404

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $24,844
    Expenses
    $21,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,033

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 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Cheryl Christensen
Mailing address
PO Box 1238Thatcher AZ 85552
Website
www.desertcatrescue.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 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 13 October 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.