Stray Sanctuary Llc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873003061
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Williston, ND, USA
- Phone
- 4065643467
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $574,018
- Expenses
- $502,428
- Assets
- $71,590
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Allison Parizek (Board of Director Worker)
- Allee Parizek (Board of Director Worker)
- Leah Brooks (Board of Director Worker)
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
The Stray Sanctuary is a 501c3 Non-Profit Local Animal Rescue serving western North Dakota by providing services to the stray unidentified & uncontained animals of our community by providing emergency rescue efforts food water safe shelter veterinary care and adoption opportunities. Our Mission is to help our local community by preventing overpopulation preventing spread of canine disease preventing animal bites and injury preventing animal suffering and preventing potential death. The Stray Sanctuary focuses efforts of animal rescue towards counties of western North Dakota including the community of The Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. This includes Native American Tribal Land spanning across the Missouri River Basin. MHA Nation consists of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation within segments of White Shield Parshall New Town Four Bears Mandaree and Twin Buttes.
What it reported doing in 2025
As of December 31 2023 a running total of 582 animals from western North Dakota have found rescue through The Stray Sanctuary - all of which in our personal garage temporarily transformed into a safe space for wandering animals. In the first 6 months of this year in 2023 alone we have rescued 135 animals this exceeds our previous total of 93 animals in 2022 and 154 animals in the full calendar year of 2021. Even while utilizing our Non-Profit discount on local veterinary care we continue to spend approximately $250 each animal on each spay neuter and distemper rabies vaccinations. This is only achieving basic minimal care. This number does not include the additional rescue efforts food water shelter emergency vet care and adoption opportunities we provide.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 12.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 46.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 75.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $502K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.