Artemis Animal Rescue a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
993137399
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Highland Park, NJ, USA
Phone
9082794967
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,529
Expenses
$55,560
Assets
$943
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIKA ARENGER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • ERIKA ARENGER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • JUSTICE HEHIR (VICE DIRECTOR)
  • MEGAN SHOOK (OPERATIONS MANAGER)

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

We trap, foster, socialize, provide medical care, and find homes for community stray cats.

What it reported doing in 2025

Artemis Animal Rescue is a 100% foster-based, community centered non-profit rescue serving Central New Jersey - specifically Highland Park, New Brunswick, Edison, Piscataway, and East Brunswick. Our rescue work is anchored in compassion for all living beings, recognizing that cat welfare and human well-being are deeply interconnected. We believe that when people struggle, animals do too. For this reason, we take a community-oriented approach to animal welfare, recognizing that animal rescue exists within a larger context of social injustice and inequality. Poverty, lack of access to affordable housing, domestic violence, and immigration policy are just some of the challenges and injustices that impact pet ownership, abandonment, and surrender. We prioritize keeping people and their pets together whenever possible, and create pathways for stray, abandoned, and feral cats into safe, loving homes. Every cat that enters our care receives comprehensive veterinary treatments, including vacci

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.9%; rating input score 97
  • Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 96.9% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $54K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.