Merced Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
941690684
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Merced, CA, USA
Phone
2092011296
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$123,390
Expenses
$112,871
Assets
$33,689

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CYNTHIA KELLY (President)
  • FRANK CIENFUEGOS (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • CYNTHIA KELLY (President)
  • FLORENCE LAMBERT (member)
  • FRANK CIENFUEGOS (Vice President)

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

Since 1969, our mission has been to work collaboratively with the merced animal control division to save as many shelter animals as we can through rescue, foster, and transport; to improve our community's environmental health and safety by reducing illnesses in feral animals through trapping and vaccinations, and to continue to spay and neuter as many of merced's animals as we can through our tnr program in an effort to decrease the overwhelming euthanaisa rate due to abandonment, abuse, and overpopulation.

What it reported doing in 2025

Fostered and housed: 75 animals in 2023; 68 were sent to rescue; 60 were adopted. Paid for medical services of 250 cats and kittens. Paid to euthanize 25 animals. Paid for 983 trap, neuter, and release services.donated $750 to other animal rescue centers.donated $500 to new beginnings for merced county animals.donated $250 to the nine lives foundation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.