Animal Advocates of Howard County Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521903334
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Ellicott City, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4108802488
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $181,863
- Expenses
- $100,357
- Assets
- $324,680
- Liabilities
- $9,095
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURIE WALLACE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LAURIE WALLACE (PRESIDENT)
- ANNE SELNICK (TREASURER)
- LYNN KOSTELECHY (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the organiztion is to promote an ethical philosophy that fosters respect for and valuing of all animal life.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization provides programs for rescue, spay and neuter, and other medical services for animals in need. All other accomplishments the organization also provides humane education for the benefit of animal life. The organization has a fund to help pet parents who have unexpected urgent pet illness that they can not afford.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.8%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.24; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.