Humane Society Waterville Area
Overview
Mission
Care for homeless animals
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide care, feeding and maintaining all facilities to care for animals needing homes. Also, spay and neuter programs are provided for adopted animals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237076479
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Waterville, ME, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Environment and Animals
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and the filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.79; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.9% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $857K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 annual filings from 2013 to 2024
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record