Meowdog Animal Rescue

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934037401
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Mt Pleasant, SC, USA
Phone
8646163476
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$113,652
Expenses
$81,211
Assets
$47,111
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LOGAN MCCARRELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • LOGAN MCCARRELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • MARY RUTH STARR (SECRETARY)
  • NORA HLAVAC (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

At meowdog, our mission is to provide shelter, safety, and medical care to animals in need, as well as to alleviate overcrowding and abuse in shelters due to high population and lack of funding. We rely largely on volunteers, foster families, and donations to reach our goals. Every animal deserves a safe and comfortable place to call home, and we work tirelessly to make that a reality.

What it reported doing in 2025

Meowdog works closely with the veterinary sciences program at our local high school. Whenever possible, students take action to provide medical care, make phone calls, and process applications and foster forms to gain real-world experience while still giving back to the community in a unique and hands on way. Examples include administering medications, taking animals to the vet, taking animals into foster homes, helping promote social media, and working with the general public to raise awareness. Meowdog helps by partnering with local shelters, rescues, and veterinarians in order to provide quality care to all animals. The purpose of our program is to help those in need and rehabilitate them with the assistance of many students, community volunteers, and veterinary practices. We work with community members and businesses to hold fundraising and adoption events. We pull animals from several shelters but we primarily use colleton county and sumter county animal shelters. However we have also worked with manning, orangeburg, and greenville, sc. When we have space, we also will bring animals in from members of the community who have found an animal in need. We also host a bi-yearly dog wash, where community members bring their dogs to be washed to help raise funds for our rescue. All of these things are volunteer based activities so we rely on the community and fundrasing events to help sustain our rescue. During 2025 we rescued, fostered, and adopted out approximately 100 dogs and cats.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 66% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

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

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $671.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th 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: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • 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: 28.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 79% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 81.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 93.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.