Finger Lakes Spca of Central New York
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 150532256
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Auburn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3152535841
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $488,909
- Expenses
- $454,480
- Assets
- $2,325,073
- Liabilities
- $122,757
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICK LAPRESI (Executive Director)
- ANASTASIA ZYGAROWICZ (President)
- KRISTEN MARKS (V President)
People named in this filing
- NICK LAPRESI (Executive Director)
- SHAUN SECAUR (Secretary)
- ANASTASIA ZYGAROWICZ (President)
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
The programs and services that the Shelter offers are adoptions of dogs/puppies/cats/kittens low-cost spay neuter clinics humane law enforcement free rabies clinics, humane education lost and found liasion with local animal control officers referral service and behavioral advice and referral.
What it reported doing in 2024
Humane Law Enforcement Division consists paid staff, which is responsible for countywide investigation, education and enforcement of animal welfare laws at the federal, state and local levels. Agents complete New York State certified training programs in Law Enforcement topics and practices, with emphasis upon all aspects of animal cruelty investigations and humane treatment of animals. Upon completion Agents are placed on the master registry of New York State Peace Officers. Pursuant to New York State Criminal Procedure Law, Agents of the SPCA are classified as unrestricted peace officers CPL 2.10.7 with full powers of arrest primarily for animal cruelty offenses. The Organization responded to 224 alleged cases of animal neglect, cruelty or abuse in 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $75.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.12; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $407K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.