The Maryland Spca Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 526001558
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4102358826
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,194,527
- Expenses
- $8,570,753
- Assets
- $42,504,744
- Liabilities
- $361,313
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- M JOHN MEYER (PRESIDENT)
- CHERYL BERNARD-SMITH (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA LANZILOTTI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA LANZILOTTI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $154,851 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER DUNWORTH (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT): $130,039 total reported compensation
- MICHELE GERARD (VETERINARIAN): $128,033 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the lives of pets and people in the community; to provide and promote education concerning the proper care of animals; to provide medical services, socialization, and enrichment to animals; (see schedule o for continuation)to reduce dog and cat overpopulation by providing spay and neuter services; to counsel pet owners who can no longer keep their pets; and to place animals in homes through its adoption program.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided food, water and shelter to the area's unwanted and abandoned animals; promotes the respect, love and welfare of all animals through specialized programs and education. Assisted with finding homes for unwanted dogs and cats through an adoption program; provided shelter for abandoned and neglected animals; provided low cost spay/neuter program; provided a lost and found service; and provided medical services to dogs and cats.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 76.1%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.96; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.8% of revenue deployed · 76.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $155K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.