Claws Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300262797
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9196190776
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Wildlife Sanctuary, Refuge
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,705
- Expenses
- $55,970
- Assets
- $3,645
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amy Bohrod (President)
- Dr Dan Johnson (Vice-President)
- Kindra Mammone (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Amy Bohrod (President)
- Dr Dan Johnson (Vice-President)
- Lori Widener (Secretary)
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
Our primary exempt purpose is threefold - wildlife rehabilitation, conservation education and exotic animal rescue.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our primary exempt purpose is threefold, wildlife rehabilitation, conservation education and exotic animal rescue. It is impossible to categorize expenses by program because care for all the animals and birds is done together. Service Accomplishments 1) Wildlife Rehabilitation - We provide a free service to the public to rehabilitate sick, orphaned, and injured wildlife as well as provide wildlife information and education via a telephone hotline. We are permitted to rehabilitate songbirds, waterfowl, raptors, and small mammals and rabies vector species (raccoon, fox, skunk, and bat). In the year 2025, we received 2333 phone calls resulting in our taking in 524 animal and birds. 2) Conservation Education - Through outreach programs to schools, both public and private, homeschool groups, nursing homes, day cares, summer camps and other locations as appropriate, we incorporate our permanent live birds and mammals (those which are non-releasable and for which we hold educational permits) to teach people about many different wild species found locally and around the world. In the year 2025 we held 84 programs/events which were seen by approximately 42280 people. 3) Exotic Animal Rescue - We also take in exotic animals that need to be removed from their current situation. There are not many other rescues that can do this. This can be for one of several reasons - a) An animal that may not legally be kept as a pet and by law must be relinquished by its owner. b) A legally owned exotic pet that has become too difficult or inconvenient for its owner. c) A non-native animal that is found and must be taken in for legal or safety reasons. d) We also work with the state and local government to temporarily house wild and/or exotic animals that are involved in legal disputes. In the year 2025 we rescued 20 animals/birds for 1 person.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.4%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 60.2%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 59.4% of revenue deployed · 60.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.