Mystic Krewe of Barkus
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721390481
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 5045857881
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $118,558
- Expenses
- $128,341
- Assets
- $41,475
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GREGORY CURTIS (PRESIDENT)
- CHAD CRESPO (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- GREGORY CURTIS (PRESIDENT)
- CHAD CRESPO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CATHERINE OLIVIER (VP COMMUNICATIONS)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Barkus is organized to raise awareness for humane treatment of animals spaying and neutering of pets, homeless animals and working/rescue dogs. Barkus conducts activities to raise public awareness and makes grants to organizations that prevent cruelty to animals, search and rescue animals stranded in natural disasters, promote and perform speying and neutering of animals, assist in adoption of animals, provide shelter for animals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grants to humane societies, animal rescue organizations, speying and neutering organizations and related organizations. No grant to any one organization exceeded $5,000 during 2024.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.