Center for Animal Rescue & Enrichment of St Louis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831080279
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3146962444
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,714,635
- Expenses
- $1,393,866
- Assets
- $926,201
- Liabilities
- $245,051
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WENG HORAK (CEO)
- DIONNE FLOWERS (PRESIDENT)
- LISA NEWLIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- WENG HORAK (CEO): $65,962 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Care stl exists to create a supportive community rooted in collaboration, compassion, and caring for people and animals. Our primary focus is the health and safety of the animals in our care - the abused, neglected, surrendered, and stray or abandoned homeless companion animals in the city of st. Louis. We pair those animals with humans to better each other. We are dedicated to implementing a long-term, holistic solution to our city's pet cruetly and overpopulation epidemic by educating the public on responsible pet guardianship, lifesaving partnerships, and community outreach programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Care stl provides all animals that come into our care with safety, veterinary care, food, water, and enrichment, to take care of physical, emotional, and mental health until they are adopted into loving homes. Care stl accepts homeless, abused, neglected, injured, and surrendered animals into our care until they can be adopted into loving homes. Care stl provides matching services to care stl clients looking to foster a pet, and adopt a pet, so that they may be adopted into loving homes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 77.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 18.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.