California Community Animal Response Teams

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
933753395
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Napa, CA, USA
Phone
5594474949
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Emergency Assistance

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,624
Expenses
$16,206
Assets
$3,376

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Claudia Sonder DVM (Vice President)
  • Ashley Patterson DVM (Vice President)
  • Stephanie Geckler (President)

People named in this filing

  • Claudia Sonder DVM (Vice President)
  • Ashley Patterson DVM (Vice President)
  • Lisa Towell (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

Cal-cart is to serve as an unbrella organization for carts operating in the state of ca. Carts provide community education, emergency sheltering, evacuation, animal health care and reunificiation of animals affected by disasters and are integrated with county emergency operation plans.

What it reported doing in 2025

2024 established the first California statewide organized community animal response teams to coordinate efforts with various CARTs to work together to increase response times and ultimately save more animals and their owners during various disasters.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -28.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -98.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -69.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.