Covenant Creatures - Companion Animal Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262336330
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Tumwater, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3603576301
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,805
- Expenses
- $84,141
- Assets
- $69,478
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Justin Ripka (President/Interim Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Justin Ripka (President/Interim Treasurer)
- Marlene Samuels (Secretary)
- Mari Bieder (Board Member)
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
Cultivate mutually beneficial relationships with animals for the purpose of well-being through service to the homeless and low income populations which includes (but is not limited to) seniors, disabled, and the working poor.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our operations provide general supplies such as: pet food, collars, leashes, bedding, etc. that have been brought from our storage unit facility to various street outreach sites. In these street outreach locations, we also provide space for licensed volunteer veterinarians and technicians to do veterinary exams, flea prevention, and medications to pets brought in to us by their owners. Conditions treated range from behavioral problems to respiratory infections. We also provide preventative care such as vaccinations, which are required by law. Clients are screened for financial qualification and must fall within our financial guidelines (Federal Poverty Guidelines used as a base). Covenant Creatures recognizes that pets are not only best friends and family, but sometimes a connection to reality. A team ranging from eight to fifteen volunteers endeavor to assist owners in providing for their pets.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.