Caring For Creatures Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541463336
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Palmyra, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4348422404
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,128,397
- Expenses
- $714,515
- Assets
- $1,210,972
- Liabilities
- $165,081
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kristen Townsend (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Mary K Birkholz (Pres./Dir.): $32,000 total reported compensation
- Kristen Townsend (Vice President): $17,493 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See Attached Schedule
What it reported doing in 2025
Animal Care - See Attached Schedule
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 38
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.1%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
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: 50%; rating input score 50; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.69; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.1% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $615K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $117K reported
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.