Delaware County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231440112
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Media, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6105661370
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,694,929
- Expenses
- $6,211,575
- Assets
- $9,163,017
- Liabilities
- $453,833
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARYNELL BENSON (PRESIDENT)
- JO-ANN ZOLL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICE)
Highest reported compensation
- JO-ANN ZOLL (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICE): $199,797 total reported compensation
- KIM BOUDWIN (CMO & ASSOC. EXEC. DIR.): $198,240 total reported compensation
- ROBERT DRENNEN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER/CAO): $181,641 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The providence animal center is dedicated to intervention and prevention policies to promote companion animal welfare and provide support services to their caregivers and the community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Prevention of cruelty to animals- the providence animal center provides shelter and protection to animals while attempting to place animals in caring homes and promote responsible pet ownership through education and low cost veterinary services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $200K · 17 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $322K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.