Animals Unlimited

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934624886
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Montpelier, VA, USA
Phone
8046471066
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Zoo, Zoological Society

Reported finances

Revenue
$93,348
Expenses
$70,734
Assets
$105,895
Liabilities
$70,734

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Wilba Pettus Gilman (President and Treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Jana Strickland (Managing Director)
  • Wilba Pettus Gilman (President and Treasurer)
  • Robert R Barnes (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mobile Zoo for Animal Education

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.8%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 157.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $71K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.