Color Country Animal Welfare

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263955089
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Torrey, UT, USA
Phone
4354252050
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$252,661
Expenses
$318,150
Assets
$1,208,873
Liabilities
$10,773

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MILADA COPELAND (PRESIDENT)
  • SARAH TAL (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • LORELEI O'DAY (OPERATIONS M): $44,679 total reported compensation
  • MORGAN FLYNN (OPERATIONS M): $12,773 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Color country animal welfare (ccaw) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the number of homeless dogs and cats in the wayne county region through rescue and adoption, community assistance, and the promotion of humane animal care. Ccaw is the only organization in the region providing comprehensive animal services, filling a critical gap for both animals and the community. The facility west of torrey serves as both an animal shelter and a community resource center, providing care for animals and essential support services to the public.

What it reported doing in 2025

Ccaw operates a no-kill shelter providing intake, medical care, enrichment, and placement for dogs and cats. In 2025, the organization completed 116 adoptions and transferred 29 animals to rescue partners to ensure appropriate outcomes. Ccaw assists with lost-pet recovery and reunification, successfully reuniting 23 animals with their families in 2025. Our pet food pantry is used to prevent pet surrender due to financial hardship, ccaw distributed 3,580 free pet food bags to 594 families in 2025. Ccaw facilitated 326 spay/neuter surgeries in 2025, including 252 for community animals, reducing overpopulation and improving animal health. Through its facility and outreach, ccaw provides education, referrals, and support for responsible pet ownership and humane animal management. Boarding of cats and dogs was offered to local residents and tourists to give them a safe place to stay while their owners were away.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 83
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $40.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 26th 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: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -25.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.8; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $275K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $45K · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.