Silverstray Social

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
845067840
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
La Porte, IN, USA
Phone
5748062810
Rating
97
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$89,645
Expenses
$88,560
Assets
$7,085
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelly Carey (Founder/Executive Director)
  • Jerry Weinberg (President)

People named in this filing

  • Kelly Carey (Founder/Executive Director)
  • Jerry Weinberg (President)
  • James Opon (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

Silverstray Social provides free access to veterinary care and supportive services to underserved pet families in Gary, Indiana. Through free spay and neuter, vaccinations, microchipping, trap neuter return, and community outreach, the organization removes barriers to care, prevents pet overpopulation, improves animal welfare, and strengthens families and communities through the human animal bond.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, Silverstray Social continued its Silver Lining Gary initiative, providing free spay and neuter assistance, vaccinations, microchips, trap neuter return services, preventive care, pet supplies, and community outreach to underserved pet families throughout Gary, Indiana. The organization worked in formal partnership with the City of Gary and Gary Animal Control to improve access to veterinary care, reduce shelter intake, prevent disease through intake vaccinations, facilitate rescue placement, and strengthen the human animal bond. Since the program began in 2023, more than 11,000 animals have been served, impacting more than 33,000 individuals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 110% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 46.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $172K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.