Westernncsr

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922992533
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Vale, NC, USA
Phone
8282347297
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$21,701
Expenses
$20,471
Assets
$7,960
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tammy Walsh (President)
  • Joan King (Vice President/Treasurer)
  • Trish Jacobs (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Tammy Walsh (President)
  • Joan King (Vice President/Treasurer)
  • Erin West (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Western NC Sheltie Rescue mission is to promote Shelties/Sheltie Mix to the community by providing safe compassionate homes to them when they find themselves homeless. We will do everything in our power to prevent cruelty, overpopulation and euthanization of a sheltie/sheltie mix and find them a final home best suited for the circumstances of that dog.

What it reported doing in 2025

In our third year of rescue we have found loving homes for 22 dogs, sometimes traveling out of state to rescue them and fostering 26 others. Once in our program they are fully vetted, including updating vaccinations and getting them dentals, spayed/neutered before they go to their forever home. The average cost for vetting is approximately $800 per dog.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 63.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 42.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 32.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.