Pet Community Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451524886
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6155125001
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Veterinary Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,623,553
- Expenses
- $2,741,137
- Assets
- $2,006,813
- Liabilities
- $878,053
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- APRIL PINELLI DVM (MEDICAL DIRE): $140,923 total reported compensation
- BRANDON DYCE (EXECUTIVE DI): $117,434 total reported compensation
- TRAVIS BEELER (VETERINARIAN): $114,498 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pet community center's mission is to strengthen the human-animal bond through accessible veterinary care and support services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our community outreach programs include the food security program and pets for life program. Pets for life transforms the lives of animals by serving people and pets in underserved areas and bringing awareness to systemic inequities and injustices that contribute to pet homelessness. The program provides free spay/neuter services, wellness care, pet supplies, transportation support, and resources to pet owners who statistically have the least access to affordable veterinary care and supplies. In 2025, pcc served 464 dogs and cats living in its pets for life service area, providing 4,629 subsidized services, surgeries, and medications. The food security program distributes pet food directly to our clients most in need. The program also partners with metro animal care and control, second harvest food bank of middle Tennessee, the martha o'bryan center, and st. Luke's community house to provide food for pet owners in need throughout our community. In 2025, 4,590 clients were served, and 253,304 meals were distributed.
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 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.