Beyond Fences Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262584285
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9194520050
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $678,666
- Expenses
- $658,372
- Assets
- $1,311,116
- Liabilities
- $329,052
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LORI HENSLEY (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $82,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide free services, supplies, information and support to honor people's love for their pets. We proactively reach out to the community to build trusting relationships with families and make connections to keep pets healthy and happy. We believe a lack of financial means does not equate to a lack of love for a pet, and we seek to spread this principle through a philosophy of understanding and non-judgement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Shelter intervention programthrough our shelter intervention program, we provide assistance to families facing housing insecurities, health problems, or financial problems to help them keep their pets as members of their families. In 2025, we paid pet fees to 16 landlords and covered the cost of shelter fees so 62 pets could be reunited with their families. We covered boarding fees for 7 dogs in 2025 so their owners could receive medical care, find permanent housing, or leave a domestic violence situation.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.3%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- 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%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.3% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $483K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.