Rutherford County Cat Rescue

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472782002
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Murfreesboro, TN, USA
Phone
6156530431
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$137,151
Expenses
$135,086
Assets
$9,452

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANGELA LANGDON (President)

People named in this filing

  • ANGELA LANGDON (President)
  • DONNA HAYNES (Treasurer)
  • JENNIS JOSLIN (Asst Treasurer)

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

Our mission is to decrease the number of homeless, strays, and owned cats' offspring by spay and neuter. We provide financial assistance to people on a fixed income and assistance for emergency vetting for their cats or injured strays.

What it reported doing in 2025

Thanks to public donations, RCCR was able to spay, neuter, vaccinate, and vet approximately 426 cats in 2025 and provide vet care for numerous others. We were able to provide emergency care and surgeries for numerous strays and homeless cats that addressed injuries and other wounds. With the help of volunteers, we fostered 335 cats and kittens and found loving homes for 196 of them. Our volunteer foster program trapped many wild kittens, socialized them, and then found loving homes for them as well. We also TNR (Trap Neuter Return) many wild adult cats where homes or businesses continue to feed and provide shelter. TNR's numbered 180 in 2025. In addition, we have helped raise funds to pay the vet bills of sister rescues in the Middle TN area

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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97.5%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97.5% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $134K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.