The White Coat Waste Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460856543
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026569044
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,941,048
- Expenses
- $5,310,087
- Assets
- $4,592,802
- Liabilities
- $250,277
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ANTHONY BELLOTTI (PRES./FOUNDER): $182,443 total reported compensation
- JUSTIN GOODMAN (SVP ADVOC/PUB.POL): $147,800 total reported compensation
- MEGAN ANDERSON (SR. VP, MARKETING): $130,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate and inform the public about the suffering of animals in publically-funded laboratories and experimentation facilities as well as wasteful government spending on animal experiments.
What it reported doing in 2024
Closed a UC Davis lab & retired 15+ cats. Ended the VAs final cat lab & reduced NIHs last in-house beagle lab to zero dogs. Spearheaded law banning VA dog, cat & primate tests. Rallied lawmakers to cut DOJ live tissue drills & pressure EPA to reinstate animal test phase-out. Exposed USDA bird flu & DOD/NIH beagle labs in China. Uncovered transgender mice tests, Navy cat lab & DOD dog contracts. Led effort to end Monkey Island & NIH bat labs. Exposs triggered EcoHealth debarment. Investigations cited by Wash Post, NY Post, Fox & more. Filed 3 complaints & 7 lawsuits. Ran national ad campaigns (most program costs) driving 674M+ impressions, 18.1M+ video views & 1.96M+ calls/petitionsgrowing our base, awareness & advocacy, fueling policy change, lab closures & rescues.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 6 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $806K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 38 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.