Compassionate Action for Animals
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411846192
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122762242
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $461,060
- Expenses
- $436,571
- Assets
- $306,765
- Liabilities
- $105,782
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE REITER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- LAURA MATANAH (EXECUTIVE DI): $53,403 total reported compensation
- JULIE KNOPP (BOARD MEMBER): $3,873 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Compassionate action for animals encourages minnesotans to embrace their empathy for animals and move towards a plant-based diet. Caa envisions a world where all animals, human and non-human can thrive.
What it reported doing in 2024
1) twin cities veg fest drew over 5,000 people to explore plant-based living; 2) we educated over 1,900 youth about the animal, environmental, and health benefits of plant-based living in school and community settings; 3) 280 volunteers gave over 6,000 hours of time to support others in taking action for farmed animals and moving towards a compassionate diet 4) staff and volunteers conducted over 100 outreach events, including the twin cities vegan chef challenge, vegan cooking classes, movies, speakers, and educational outreach and 5) we invited over 700,000 minnesotans to take pro-animal action through our social media channels
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $9 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th 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: 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $362K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $53K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.