Cedar Creek Sanctuary Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811115299
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Fonda, IA, USA
- Phone
- 7127490442
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,437
- Expenses
- $16,575
- Assets
- $135,470
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARILYN TAMM-SCHMITT (Director)
- JEANNE TIEDEMAN (Director)
- ANNIE REIFF (Director)
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
ANIMAL SHELTER/ANIMAL RESCUE, TNRThe Cedar Creek Sanctuary is located in the town of Fonda, Iowa with a current population of 636. The sanctuarys mission as a no kill shelter is to rescue injured and special needs cats off the streets of our community and to provide the necessary vet care for them so that they can eventually be adopted into forever homes. This goal is carried out daily at the shelter which houses in a cage free environment twenty to thirty cats at any one time. We also engage in a trap-neuter-release program to control the cat population which has prevented 100s of new cats populating the streets. A group of community volunteers assists with the trapping and ongoing care of feeding and providing shelter for the feral cats. Our small shelter annually operates on $10,000-20,000 per year, entirely run by volunteers with no paid employees. We have filed faithfully every year on the 990N ePost card. Our board of directors offer a wide variety of views and talents. Board mem
What it reported doing in 2025
Long term care for special needs cats requiring meds, special diets, behavior modification, physical help (costs for vet, food and litter overlap the other categories)
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
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 11.6%; rating input score 12
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 88.4%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.17; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 11.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 12/100.