Kindness Counts
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 760764062
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Sevierville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8655005508
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $401,617
- Expenses
- $383,782
- Assets
- $627,771
- Liabilities
- $17,430
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- APRIL T STONE (President)
Highest reported compensation
- MEGHAN HARVILLE (PUBLIC RELATION): $7,388 total reported compensation
- APRIL T STONE (President): $3,700 total reported compensation
- FANIKOS DANIELA (VETERINARIAN): $3,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing low cost spay/neuter and vaccination services for pets, trap, spay/neuter vaccinations and return for community cats. Our primary focus is low income households
What it reported doing in 2025
Spay/neuter and vaccination services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $367K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $7K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.