Companion Animal Nutrition and Wellness Institute Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471515429
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Hillsborough, NJ, USA
Phone
9176013272
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,195
Expenses
$64,404
Assets
$416,568
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DONNA RADITIC DVM DACVM CVA (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KAREN SHAW BECKER DVM CVA CCRT (VICE PRESIDE)
  • DONNA RADITIC DVM DACVM CVA (PRESIDENT)
  • SUSAN S SPAGNOLA ESQ (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To educate the pet community on nutrition and wellness for companion animals. Become recognized as a credible source of independent unbiased source of nutrition and wellness information. Perform unbiased independent nutrition research and publish findings.

What it reported doing in 2024

Phd program university of Georgia the canwi phd program and research began during 2021 was successfully concluded in 2024. The candidate completed her research in metabolomics, age stability in canine urine samples and her phd manuscript has been accepted by uga graduate school and she has received her phd. Post doctorate fellow and research our canwi funded phd will then stay on at uga college of veterinary medicine as a post doctorate fellow continuing research in age analysis in pet foods and biofluid. She will be involved in the expanded collaborations canwi has made with other researchers their labs and universities discussed below. Age research the research continues and canwi has expanded its collaboration with cancer researchers dr. David turner and victoria findley to standardize age foodtesting. The collaboration has resulted in submission of a publication evaluating different methods of testing an array of ages in pet foods. The collaborations have expanded to include the following drs. Jlia guazzelli pezzali at Kansas state university; guido bosch wageningen university and vural gkmen food quality & safety research group, hacettepe university, ankara, turkey to develop standardization of an array of ages in differently processed pet food and the effects of shelf life on age types and content. The collaborators are in the process of composing a position paper for publication as well as planning and refining the study design and data analysis. Age research in healthy and diabetic cats sample collection is almost completed, and age analysis of urine and plasma will begin in 2025. After data analysis, a manuscript will be prepared and submitted for publication. Nutrition residency a canwi funded nutrition residency program completed her program and passed the certifying examination. She is now officially a diplomate of the american college of veterinary internal medicine subspecialty nutrition. She is on faculty as a full professor at the university of the west indies. She has published on her research of ages in dog diets, plasma, and urine and is working on a second publication on ages and the gut microbiome both publications are from her research during her nutrition residency and phd program which were both funded by canwi.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: Limited
  • 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: -297.7%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.47; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -12.6% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.