Friends of Texas Panhandle Shelter Pets
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 854172961
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Canyon, TX, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,179
- Expenses
- $27,613
- Assets
- $25,177
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS CARNAHAN (President)
- VINCE NOWAK (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- BRENDA WALSH (SECRETARY/TREAS)
- SHARON PROCK (MEMBER)
- SANDRA MCCARTT (MEMBERS)
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
Friends of Texas Panhandle Shelter Pets is a placement and transport rescue that works with small town panhandle shelters to help animals who are at risk of euthanasia get to rescues where they are adopted and loved.Our volunteers work with their local animal control officers to identify adoptable animals in their custody, remove them from animal control and care for them until at which time they can be vetted and transported to our partner rescues for adoption.
What it reported doing in 2025
Total shelter pets transported383Texas panhandle dogs transported 273Hereford140Friona 69Bovina 10Farwell 13Canyon 1Lazbuddie 6Amarillo 3Plainview 8Dimmitt 15Littlefield 3 Borger 1Earth 1New Home 1Black 1Texas panhandle cats transported 100Friona 77Bovina 4Canyon 10 Amarillo 1 Farwell 5 Hereford 3Assisted our partner rescues 2 dogsAssisted WWWRC1 Pig, 1 Nutria, 1 bobcatNumber of transports for our panhandle dogs & cats83Number of transports to assist partner rescues & others 5
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.2%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 48% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $28K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.