Petconnect Rescue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550857806
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Potomac, MD, USA
- Phone
- 8778389171
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $717,463
- Expenses
- $839,806
- Assets
- $1,931,631
- Liabilities
- $111,490
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARRIE FREY (PRESIDENT)
- KATHERINE BERGER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BARBARA HUTCHERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BARBARA HUTCHERSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $111,347 total reported compensation
- SANDY HAYNES (CFO): $71,361 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. We are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue experience for our adopters and to providing ongoing support through the adoption process and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
Adoption program: petconnect rescue maintains a robust adoption program. From 10/1/24 through 9/30/25 we adopted out 306 cats and 407 dogs. Petconnect rescue pulls animals into our care from over-extended shelters and other at-risk situations throughout the md/va/dc area, as well as from many of the southern east coast states. We partner with local veterinary facilities to provide medical attention including spay/neuter, vaccines, general vetting, and more extensive care such as surgeries if necessary. Grooming and behavioral evaluations and interventions are provided as needed. Our rescued animals are primarily placed in volunteer foster homes, with some boarded with reputable facilities if needed. Our volunteers also provide transportation from shelters or transport meeting locations to foster homes or boarding facilities as well as to and from medical appointments. Petconnect rescue hosts adoption events to showcase animals, posts them on various websites and social media, conducts interviews and meet and greets with potential adoptive families, provides various support mechanisms for adopters, follows up with owners of adopted animals to ensure successful placement, and repeats this process if needed to find a successful match for the animal.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.1%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 71.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $600K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.