TLC Sweet Souls Rescue Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472364298
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Newtown, CT, USA
Phone
2039424008
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$59,589
Expenses
$61,919
Assets
$370
Liabilities
$9,387

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Laura Dorr (President, Dir.)

People named in this filing

  • Laura Dorr (President, Dir.)
  • Carol Wood (VP, 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the organization is to serve as an animal rescue dedicated to saving dogs and cats from high kill-shelters, facilitating rescued animals.

What it reported doing in 2024

The organization's accomplishments for 2024 include the following: We helped local shelters in Hew Haven County with/by taking in some of their small dogs in our rescue, then vetting them and getting them adopted. We have helped numerous owner surrender dogs when the owner could no longer care for their pets due to being elderly or losing their homes or cannot afford vet bills. We helped the girl scouts put together a little book on adopting shelter pets. We are a strong advocate for spay/neuter early programs. We have a relationship with a local vet for low cost spay/neuter. We have also formed a close relationship with pet food for our intakes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 25.37; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.