Happy Stripes
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873648876
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brook Park, OH, USA
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,254
- Expenses
- $4,766
- Assets
- $3,052
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Janine Robb (President)
People named in this filing
- Janine Robb (President)
- Donna Miller (Secretary)
- Michael Sangiacomo (Officer)
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
Our purpose is to improve the well-being of cats and their caretakers by way of: 1. Rescuing cats from situations that are dangerous to themselves or their caretakers 2. Providing temporary foster homes and medical attention to the cats in our care 3. Finding quality permanent families for adoptable cats 4. Providing TNR services for community cats who cannot be adopted, including ensuring these community cats have a designated caretaker
What it reported doing in 2025
Happy Stripes has 2 active foster homes and admitted 25 cats/kittens in 2025. There were 20 adoptions. 3 ferals cats was neutered, vaccinated, and returned. 1 cat who was admitted in 2024 remains in our care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.3%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -83.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 68.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.