Spay Our Strays Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460830589
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Lexington, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8592211749
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,604
- Expenses
- $54,033
- Assets
- $34,705
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- EMILY EVANS (BOARD PRESID)
- ASH ALBANO (BOARD TREASU)
- MEAGHAN MCAULIFFE (BOARD SECRET)
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
Sos (spay our strays)' mission is: to limit the number of unwanted cats in central Kentucky by offering tnr (trap/neuter/vaccinate/return) services to the community; to provide education about tnr to the community, and specifically to care takers of community (feral/stray) cat colonies in order to achieve a healthier cat population; and to encourage and supplement, when necessary, maintenance of healthy cat colonies.
What it reported doing in 2025
Distributed cat food to needy feral/stray cat colonies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.1%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
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: 38.3%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 187.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.1% of revenue deployed · 94.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $51K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.