Feral Friends Community Cat Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752761441
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Richardson, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2145979945
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $237,343
- Expenses
- $438,049
- Assets
- $409,634
- Liabilities
- $12,109
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kelly Richert (President)
- Krystal Yates (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kelly Richert (President): $50,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Feral Friends Community Cat Alliance promotes TNR trap neuter return the only humane and effective method of feral cat management with its RTRL Race to Reduce Litters. The groups adoption program provides foster care for domesticated cats and kittens until permanent loving homes are found.
What it reported doing in 2024
Feral Friends Community Cat Alliance promotes TNR trap neuter return the only humane and effective method of feral cat management with its RTRL Race to Reduce Litters program. The groups adoption program provides foster care for domesticated cats and kittens until permanent loving homes are found. Cats and kittens in this program are domesticated but displaced and typically come from the following sources: 1. The feral program-domesticated cat trapped with feral colonies. 2. Kittens born to feral and stray mothers. 3. Local animal shelters. 4. Owners who can no longer care for their pets. In 2022 179 cats and kittens found permanent homes through Feral Friends adoption program.
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 98% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -84.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $422K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.