Stray Healthcare & Education to Limit Population
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300861027
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Fishkill, NY, USA
- Phone
- 8452320336
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $221,068
- Expenses
- $182,114
- Assets
- $110,486
- Liabilities
- $10,371
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANN LAGOY (PRESIDENT)
- KIM MARROW (PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN COHAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CATHY MERING REGAN (DIRECTOR)
- DEBBIE WEIBMAN (DIRECTOR)
- SUE BRUNDAGE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To protect and improve the lives of homeless, free-roaming community cats by assisting both the animals and those who care for them. They achieve this through education, community collaboration, and promoting the benefits of spay/neuter as a key tool for cat health and safety.
What it reported doing in 2025
The cats and kittens available for adoption through stray h.e.l.p. Have been rescued as part of our tnr/p (trap, neuter, return/place) efforts in the mid-hudson valley area of New York. All our animals are in foster homes for some time, where they get everything they need, including lots of love stray h.e.l.p. Wants to ensure that the cat(s) you are adopting will be situated in the best home possible where the cat(s) will receive life-long care as well as compassionate and respectful treatment. Our animals have already been through so much; we want to make sure its only happy tails from here on out.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.6%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.61; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- 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.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.