Laurel Cats Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
470989931
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Laurel, MD, USA
Phone
3018860161
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$274,019
Expenses
$220,907
Assets
$396,948
Liabilities
$27,425

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HELEN WOODS (PRESIDENT)
  • COLLEEN BOWERS (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • HELEN WOODS (PRESIDENT)
  • EDITH VASCO (DIRECTOR)
  • DORIS BRUGNOLI (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

Generally, to educate & mobilize concerned citizens of laurel, md and surrounding counties with respect to the public health and other benefits to the community by stabilizing, reducing, and eventually eliminating the local feral cat population through humane methods.

What it reported doing in 2025

All program service accomplishments listed below are performed by volunteers and incur no expenses nor generate revenue (1) stabilize, reduce, and eventually bring the free-roaming cat population to zero through tvnr and natural attrition (2) assist colony caretakers, property owners & managers in finding ways for cats to live harmoniously alongside homes & businesses (3) support caretakers by teaching & assisting them with sound management practices so all community cats are sterilized and have access to food, clean water, shelter, and veterinary services while maintaining the rights of the property owners & managers (4) promote low cost and free spay & neuter programs, responsible adoption, and other practices that will end the epidemic of abandoned, unsterilized cats that perpetuates the free-roaming cat cycle

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 72% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.2%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19.4%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.2% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $209K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.