Real Cruzan Cats
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814059184
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lexington, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6179056804
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,298
- Expenses
- $170,256
- Assets
- $130,685
- Liabilities
- $34,712
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christine Southworth (President)
- Sheila Kelly (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Christine Southworth (President)
- Marcia Brisbois (Treasurer)
- Sheila Kelly (Vice President)
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
The objects and purposes for the corporation as formed are as follows: The corporation is formed to ensure the protection and humane treatment of feral and abandoned cats in St. Croix, as well as to; To form a TNVR program (trap, neuter, vaccinate and return) for feral cats to help reduce the overpopulation on the island; To work with other groups on the island toward educating the public about the value of the lives of all animals; To educate people how to properly manage a feral cat colony; To foster kittens and friendly ferals/strays in order to find them permanent homes through adoption.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we rescued and adopted out 84 cats, and trap-neuter-released 412 feral cats in St. Croix through island veterinary clinics. We continued and expanded our Food for Ferals program to distribute cat food to people around the island who feed community cats but didn't have money to buy cat food, primarily the group feeding cats at the largest colony on island. We began working on clearing our property for The St. Croix Cat Sanctuary in 2024, but ran into issues with the location - wetlands and flooding potential, so we are currently in the process of selling that property to the parks department of the US Virgin Islands.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 62.4%; rating input score 62
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -33.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 62.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.