Beatrice Humane Society Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

In may of 2023, we opened the doors of our public facing low-cost spay and neuter clinic. We have known for many years that access to affordable preventative care has been impacting the income restricted families in our communities. Proportionally they provide a larger number of strays, surrenders and pet retention assistance requests than other parts of our community. By providing them assistance to get preventative veterinary care such as spays and neuters, we will see a decrease in the number of animals being surrendered and by including microchipping in our packages we hope to be able to reunite them with the families that love them easier. We are ecstatic about being able to offer trap, vaccinate, neuter and return to their home to the feral cats in our communities at a price point that cities, towns and even individual owners can access that care. We know that this is the most effective form of outdoor cat population control and are excited to see our communities improve with the rollout of the tvnr program. Finally, we are also providing in house spays and neuters as well as additional advanced veterinary care for our shelter animals allowing us to provide them the highest level of care they deserve while providing us critical additional capacity to care for as many animals as we can along their path to adoption. Through our spay and neuter clinic, we provided care for 501 community animals, 1251 shelter surgeries, 609 surgeries and procedures for our rescue partners and 835 tvnr surgeries for feral cats. In total in 2024, we helped over 3200 shelter and client owned animals through our low cost spay and neuter clinic.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 97
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings