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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Totally agree about the need for a rescue fee, but some have gotten pretty outrageous. I paid more than $400 to Lucky Dog, which according to their 990 (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/or...212659349300106/full) has $6.6 million carryover in the bank. That includes $400k that they added last year, when they took in $2.4 million and spent $2.0 million. They don't need a $6 million+ cushion. Time to reduce fees and spend down to a more reasonable $2 million carryover.[/quote]

Oops, mistated the numbers but the point stands.

Last year in the 990, Lucky Dog raised $3.9 million.  Spent $1.9 million.  Added $2 million to the bank where they have $6.7 million total in assets.[/quote]

So 3.9 million revenue at 400 per dog equals selling 812 dogs per month for one year. Is this rescue really moving that many dogs or are they doing massive fundraising and not dispensing the money under the purposes of the non profit guidelines?

If they really did take in 9750 dogs last year then they were spending an average of $194 per dog and charging $400.[/quote]

NP: Lucky dog is an incredibly high volume rescue.  They bring dogs up from the south 30 or 40 at a time, put them in foster homes or a boarding kennel for a week or two, and then adopt them out at petco/petsmart adoptions.  I am sure they do many thousands of adoptions per year.  Their home page states 25,000 in the last 14 years, and one would assume it grows exponentially.

I don't particularly love their model of quantity of homes over quality, but they do move a lot of dogs.[/quote]

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