Tufts VETS
Legal name: Tufts Veterinary Emergency Treatment & Specialties Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043430674
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Walpole, MA, United States
- Phone
- 508-668-5454
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,898,899
- Expenses
- $27,194,404
- Assets
- $13,618,943
- Liabilities
- $6,348,326
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALASTAIR CRIBB (PRESIDENT)
- JULIE CALLAHAN-CLARK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- Brenda Salinardi (DVM): $571,604 total reported compensation
- Kelson Danielson (DVM): $436,239 total reported compensation
- ALASTAIR CRIBB (PRESIDENT): $423,865 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tufts VETS provides specialty and emergency veterinary care for companion animals, including 24/7 Emergency & Critical Care and other specialist services (e.g., urgent care, ophthalmology, internal medicine, cardiology). Our ICU is equipped to provide advanced monitoring, telemetry, transfusion medicine, high-flow oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation and other life support techniques necessary for state-of-the-art critical care. We also offer innovative treatments such as canine parvovirus monoclonal antibody therapy, feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) GS-441524 therapy, and snakebite antivenom. The Emergency & Critical Care Department is comprised of several board-certified veterinary specialists who are Diplomates of the American College of Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC), many internship-trained experienced emergency veterinarians, as well as rotating and specialty...
What it reported doing in 2024
To maintain a veterinary clinic to treat and stabilize animal emergencies and toprovide specialty services while providing an intern program for residents in theemergency treatment and dermatology programs at tufts university.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd 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: 5.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $572K · 11 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $116K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 filed related-organization links
- 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.