Whiskers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824825714
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-PF 2018, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Holladay, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8018899300
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,020
- Expenses
- $142,231
- Assets
- $4,122
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- JESSICA VIGOS (EXEC. DIR/FO)
- JULIE DAVIS (BOARD PRESID)
- MELODY GRITTON (TREASURER)
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
Whiskers rescues senior and special needs cats from Utah shelters, the public and communities giving them a second chance at life. This includes medical care for cats at shelters, in our care, and to owners who need assistance. Volunteers provide their homes to foster the cats until adopted. Adoption events are generally held twice a month; once at the farmington, ut petco and once at the bountiful, ut petco.
What it reported doing in 2024
Held bi-monthly adoption events resulting in 141 cat adoptions. Provided veterinary care and supplies for the cats in our program. We changed the lives of 355 cats either through rescue or assisting families with veterinary care assistance, medications, and vaccines.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.9% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.