Operation Spot Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431722078
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
St Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3149958678
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$156,522
Expenses
$184,553
Assets
$382,563
Liabilities
$889

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELIZABETH R RUDDER (President & Dir)

People named in this filing

  • LEANNE MARTIN (Director)
  • DANA STILWELL (Director)
  • JODI COOPER (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Preventing unnecessary euthanasia of dogs & cats by providing free or low-cost spay/neuter programs, along with public information on responsible pet guardianship.

What it reported doing in 2025

Spay/Neuter Program: We provided 866 spay/neuter procedures in the Waggin, which is a moble clinic dedicated to providing affordable and accessible dog and cat spay/neuter services to underserved communities. We subsidized 313 spay/neuter surgeries performed by veterinary clinics participating in the "TenSpot Fix and 1,147 spay/neuter surgeries performed at low-cost clinics in St. Louis and Rolla, MO.

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
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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -17.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $143K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.