West Texas Whiskers and Tails Animal Sanctuary

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824437195
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Midland, TX, USA
Phone
4326316113
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$520,562
Expenses
$372,839
Assets
$177,266
Liabilities
$28,539

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEDI ROUNTREE (PRESIDENT)
  • BETH MEEKS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • BETH MEEKS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $23,077 total reported compensation
  • KATLYN WILDER (SECRETARY): $20,000 total reported compensation
  • LORI VANHOOZER (TREASURER): $18,462 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to save lives by addressing the root cause of animal homelessness through spay/neuter, while providing rescue, foster care, adoption services, and community education. We are dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation, preventing unnecessary euthanasia, promoting responsible pet ownership, and ensuring that animals in need receive compassionate care and the opportunity to find loving, permanent homes.

What it reported doing in 2025

Rescue animals and provide outreach and community education services and save animals' lives through foster and adoption programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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

SUPPORTED - 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: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62.8%; rating input score 63
  • Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $47.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th 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: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 28.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62.8% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $327K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $23K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.

Key Signals

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

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.