ANIMAL AID UNLIMITED
Rescue. Heal. Inspire.
ANIMAL AID UNLIMITED
EIN: 71-0884843
as of September 2024
as of September 09, 2024
Mission
The mission of Animal Aid Unlimited is to bring relief to suffering animals. Although mandated to serve suffering animals anywhere in the world, our focus is Indian street animals--mainly cows, donkeys and dogs. We rescue and treat the un-owned street animals of Udaipur who have become ill or injured, and through their rescue inspire a community to protect and defend the lives of all animals.
Ruling year
2002
Principal Officer
Claire Abrams Myers
Co Principal Officer
Erika Abrams
Main address
PO Box 94001
Seattle, WA 98124 USA
EIN
71-0884843
Animal welfare
Population served
Adults
NTEE code
(Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs)) (D20)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Tax forms
Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Animals everywhere need help, and people need to recognize opportunities and inspiration to take action to help them. By rescuing dozens of animals every day, we provide opportunities and inspiration for ordinary people too, to directly help animals. Most Indian villages and cities have no rescue and treatment resources for street animals. Animal Aid’s staff, volunteers and rescued animals, in person and by sharing their rescue stories and vegan values in classrooms and in social media, inspire and teach others to help animals in their own areas.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Street animal rescue
Animal Aid Unlimited's mission is to rescue and treat the un-owned street animals of Udaipur (Rajasthan, India) who have become ill or injured, and through their rescue inspire a community to protect and defend the lives of all animals.
Our helpline receive an average of 80 to 150 rescue requests every day, and we admit 20-30 animals every day. We have 5 ambulances active from 7AM to 12AM.
Animal Birth Control
We sterilize more than 1300 dogs every year, and in 2023 we launched our new Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return (CNVR) program, with the goal of drastically increasing the number of spayed/neutered and vaccinated animals.
Where we work
Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of animals rescued
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Street animal rescue
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This figure is purely admissions to the hospital and does not include instances where our teams have arrived at site and resolved issues such as animals being stuck\trapped\treated on site.
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Street animal rescue
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This is visitors and volunteers to our hospital in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. This does not include school groups that have visited. N.B. the COVID pandemic heavily affected visitors since 2020.
Number of dogs spayed or neutered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Animal Birth Control
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Until 2022, we spayed or neutered all dogs that we had rescued for other reasons (fractures, skin issues, wounds, etc). Since April 2023, we started a stand-alone spay and neuter program.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Animal Aid Unlimited tries to strengthen people’s expression of compassion to take action to protect animals from harm. AAU gives people the opportunity to directly interact with animals, and guides them toward understanding the concept of animals’ feelings, rights and needs. AAU believes people can change and that animals themselves, directly and through videos, photographs and narratives, inspire change. AAU’s outreach shares the value to animals of not using them in food, in clothing, in labor, in experimentation. Our rescued animals are ambassadors for the billions of animals suffering because of farming, pesticides, deforestation and other man-made disasters.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Making it easy, meaningful and fun for volunteers and visitors from all backgrounds and at all levels of awareness to spend time interacting with rescued animals, in person and hands-on; creating a setting, within the hospital and shelter, for people to really connect with animals in a context where animals are relaxed and surrounded by comforting care-givers; using various platforms, techniques and styles to share our institutional assertion that animals everywhere need our protection; capturing in various media animals’ desperation and sharing it with people; showing and teaching people using film, conversation and hands-on animal contact how important, easy and fun it is to stop using animal products and to protect and respect animals’ feelings.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Animal Aid Unlimited has tremendous popularity in social media; we have (in 2021) 120 full-time staff devoted to rescue and treatment of street animals. The leadership and visionaries behind and inside Animal Aid Unlimited believe in people’s capacity to change and grow in compassion. They strive to provide opportunities for animals to inspire us to use strength to protect, not to dominate the vulnerable.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
From 2001 to 2021 we have rescued and saved about 125,000 animals; we run an 85-kennel spay-neuter center; in social media we have become one of India’s most popular charities in any category; we run a First Aid Training Program for Indians who are starting rescue services in their own villages and cities. We ensure internationally-recognized, peer-reviewed treatment protocols are followed. We have spoken to thousands of students in classrooms. We will continue to conduct rescue, develop volunteers, train rescuers, pursue cruelty cases, educate in classrooms and on site on new purchased land. We will set up a call center where rescuers and animal advocates can get needed support and continue striving to make the world kinder for everybody.
Financials
Financial documents
Download audited financialsRevenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2022 info
0.00
Months of cash in 2022 info
58.2
Fringe rate in 2022 info
0%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Financial data
ANIMAL AID UNLIMITED
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
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Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
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Business model indicators
| Profitability info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | $956,769 | $1,468,027 | $2,606,511 | $2,140,796 | $2,020,057 |
| As % of expenses | 74.0% | 94.5% | 519.0% | 190.3% | 184.0% |
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | $956,769 | $1,468,027 | $2,606,511 | $2,140,796 | $2,020,057 |
| As % of expenses | 74.0% | 94.5% | 519.0% | 190.3% | 184.0% |
| Revenue composition info | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $2,250,491 | $2,975,914 | $3,045,489 | $3,195,254 | $2,985,997 |
| Total revenue, % change over prior year | 11.7% | 32.2% | 2.3% | 4.9% | -6.5% |
| Program services revenue | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Investment income | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Government grants | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| All other grants and contributions | 98.3% | 99.4% | 99.0% | 98.9% | 99.9% |
| Other revenue | 0.7% | 0.5% | 0.9% | 1.1% | 0.1% |
| Expense composition info | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses before depreciation | $1,293,722 | $1,554,163 | $502,265 | $1,124,930 | $1,097,804 |
| Total expenses, % change over prior year | 234.1% | 20.1% | -67.7% | 124.0% | -2.4% |
| Personnel | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.6% | 1.9% |
| Professional fees | 0.0% | 5.1% | 14.5% | 6.3% | 6.7% |
| Occupancy | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Interest | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Pass-through | 94.5% | 93.4% | 79.6% | 86.7% | 85.6% |
| All other expenses | 5.5% | 1.5% | 5.8% | 5.4% | 5.8% |
| Full cost components (estimated) info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total expenses (after depreciation) | $1,293,722 | $1,554,163 | $502,265 | $1,124,930 | $1,097,804 |
| One month of savings | $107,810 | $129,514 | $41,855 | $93,744 | $91,484 |
| Debt principal payment | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed asset additions | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total full costs (estimated) | $1,401,532 | $1,683,677 | $544,120 | $1,218,674 | $1,189,288 |
Capital structure indicators
| Liquidity info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Months of cash | 36.3 | 41.6 | 134.2 | 36.5 | 58.2 |
| Months of cash and investments | 36.3 | 41.6 | 190.9 | 107.9 | 132.8 |
| Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 36.3 | 41.6 | 190.9 | 108.1 | 132.8 |
| Balance sheet composition info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $3,914,262 | $5,382,289 | $5,615,052 | $3,424,671 | $5,324,069 |
| Investments | $0 | $0 | $2,373,248 | $6,693,715 | $6,825,583 |
| Receivables | $0 | $0 | $500 | $0 | $0 |
| Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Unrestricted net assets | $3,914,262 | $5,382,289 | $7,988,800 | $10,129,596 | $12,149,653 |
| Temporarily restricted net assets | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Permanently restricted net assets | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Total restricted net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total net assets | $3,914,262 | $5,382,289 | $7,988,800 | $10,129,596 | $12,149,653 |
Key data checks
| Key data checks info | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Material data errors | No | No | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Principal Officer
Claire Abrams Myers
Claire is one of the founding members of Animal Aid Unlimited and currently heads up the running of the hospital and sanctuary in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Co Principal Officer
Erika Abrams
Erika is one of the founding members of Animal Aid Unlimited and heads up the strategic development and outreach arms of Animal Aid Unlimited.
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
ANIMAL AID UNLIMITED
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
ANIMAL AID UNLIMITED
Board of directorsas of 09/23/2023
Board of directors data
Erika Abrams
Erika Abrams
James Myers
Claire Abrams Myers
Karen Kinch
Patricia Hammerle
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
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