Central Arkansas Rescue Effort for Animals Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710814741
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Little Rock, AR, USA
- Phone
- 5016032273
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $361,423
- Expenses
- $351,923
- Assets
- $1,473,810
- Liabilities
- $14,925
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ABIGAIL REAVES (PRESIDENT)
- HEATHER MARTIN-HERRON (OUTGOING PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANGELA STRAUSS (DIRECTOR)
- ABIGAIL REAVES (PRESIDENT)
- EMILY STEWART (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule o
What it reported doing in 2025
Rescue & placement services: rescue, rehabilitation, and placement of dogs and cats through adoption and fostering.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 68% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.4%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 31.6%; rating input score 32
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.19; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.4% of revenue deployed · 31.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.