Animals in Distress Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 066085591
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wilton, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2037622006
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $168,881
- Expenses
- $134,205
- Assets
- $459,282
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Katherine Reid (President)
- Lori Redfield (1st Vice President)
- Joan Dudash (2nd Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Katherine Reid (President)
- Lori Redfield (1st Vice President)
- Joan Dudash (2nd Vice President)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provides shelter, food, veterinary services and medicine for abandoned and stray cats. No cats are euthanized. All are placed in homes, foster homes or remain at the shelter.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide shelter, food, veterinary services, medicine and all necessities for the cats and kittens at the shelter.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.5%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.42; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $134K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.