Kitten Central of Placer County Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Kitten Central is the only organization of its kind in our area that provides a complete medical fostering program for orphaned neonatal kittens 28 days or younger. Our very intensive critical care can include medically administered lifesaving fluids, breathing/nebulizing treatments, glucose stabilization, abscess drainage/dressing, forced feedings and administering medications. Sometimes kittens come to us so young and sick that all we can offer them are warm loving arms to hold them while they pass, a responsibility we take on willingly.Every year local rescues and shelters are inundated with unwanted kittens. We offer our specialized services to those rescues and shelters that are unable to provide the intensive care that these critical little ones need to survive. Without our organization, these kittens would have to be euthanized.Since our inception, our partnership with our local municipal shelter, Placer County Animal Services, has enabled them to reduce their kitten euthanasia rate to 0%. As a result of these dramatic results, Placer SPCA and the Sacramento County Animal Care and Regulation also signed up as clients in 2017 to reduce their euthanasia rates.Once kittens are accepted into the program, under the direction of our Medical Director, Patricia Colley, DVM, MPVM, Kitten Central provides individualized care in highly trained foster homes that includes a complete age appropriate medical protocol. Kittens remain in the program until they have completed this medical protocol, have been tested for Leukemia, spayed or neutered, microchipped, and have received a medical adoption clearance exam from one of our licensed Veterinarian Partners. At that time, the kittens are returned to the sponsoring rescue with a complete medical history for a healthy adoption.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76.5%; rating input score 76
• Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
• Fundraising efficiency: $40.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 18.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings