Georgia Animal Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
562623576
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Holly Springs, GA, USA
Phone
7703092025
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$68,937
Expenses
$60,889
Assets
$363,221
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cynthia A Foster (President/Founder)

Highest reported compensation

  • Cynthia A Foster (President/Founder): $5,472 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Georgia Animal Projects mission is to reduce animal suffering and shelter euthanasia by confronting companion-animal overpopulation through effective education programs and by supporting high quality, low-cost spay and neuter programs that directly serve local communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Georgia Animal Project (GAP) has demonstrated its unwavering commitment to improving the welfare of animals in Georgia by delivering and sponsoring programs in 2025. The vital endeavor of GAP comprise four core areas: spay/neuter of companion animales, feral cats spay/ neuter and colony support, emergency veterinary care funding, and animal welfare. 2025 provided spay/neuter sponsorship for 463 animals. Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) 273 free-roaming and feral cats. Emergency veterinary medical care for 30 animals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 82% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 66
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 60%; rating input score 60; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 11.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.97; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.