Cat Smart Coalition Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474266310
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Concord, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7044900550
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,188
- Expenses
- $119,220
- Assets
- $43,965
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lisa Farmer (President)
- Debbie Adams (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Lisa Farmer (President)
- Debbie Adams (Vice President)
- Chris Adams (Treasurer)
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
We partner with concerned citizens to educate the community on the importance of humane population control and care for community cats. We work with select veterinary clinics to provide spay & neuter and wellness services for community cats. We provide grant money to the clinics to help provide lower cost of services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided funding assistance to spay & neuter 1000+ community cats.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.