Michigan Pet Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200399162
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Warren, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5868717927
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,419
- Expenses
- $87,267
- Assets
- $91,487
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Tanya Hilgendorf (Chair)
- Julia Wilson (Vice Chair)
- Michelle Spranger (Secretary)
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
Eliminate abuse and neglect of Michigan pets.
What it reported doing in 2025
MPA works to establish best practices and improve standards of care for animal welfare for Michigan shelters homebased rescue organizations and pet owners while also working to eliminate cruelty and neglect.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.