Best Buddies Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611892562
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Mt Pleasant, PA, USA
Phone
7245476421
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$105,957
Expenses
$111,267
Assets
$37,036
Liabilities
$152

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Patricia Mazza (President/CFO)
  • Melissa Marsh (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Patricia Mazza (President/CFO)
  • Melissa Marsh (Vice President)
  • Connie Gentry (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

Low cost spay/neuter clinics for cats, low cost vaccine clinics for dogs and cats and $5 or free microchip clinics for pets.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our non-profit organizes low cost spay neuter clinics for cats, usually, twice a month. We sign up people, receive their money and then pay the vet and her team for their services. Our profit is very small on each surgery package. We fixed 879 cats in 2025. Our low-cost vaccine clinics provided 353 vaccines at low cost to the community. We also offer $5 or free microchip clinics during the summer and spring. We have chipped around 250 pets in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 78% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.