Wild Blue Cats

What it reported doing in 2025

See Schedule OIn 2025 our focus again remained on cats in El Paso County, but we also regularly help cats throughout Colorado and from Texas, New Mexico and occasionally California. In 2025 there were 1,071 cats taken in who were in need of safety and care; 1011 cats were adopted to loving homes.Best Friends Animal Society has recognized Wild Blue for consistently having a save rate of over 90%. Since Wild Blue was founded, over 13,000+ cats have been positively impacted by Wild Blue, and there have been over 765 community cats in the Frontier Ferals TNR program that were fixed and vaccinated in 2025 alone. Wild Blue continues working with national organizations such as Best Friends Animal Society, Petco, and Petsmart. Wild Blue continues to work with regional agencies such as DDFL Solutions, Teller County Animal Shelter, National Mill Dog Rescue in Falcon/Peyton, Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region, JJs Helping Paws, Happy Cats Haven, Feline Fix and St. Paws Thrift Store. To promote finding forever homes for our cats, Wild Blue holds adoptions events every Saturday which alternate between a Petco store and a Petsmart store in Colorado Springs. In 2025, Wild Blue's primary veterinary partner was Ponderosa Vet Clinic. Dr Erin Davezac, Dr Lauren Abrahamsen, Dr Allison Black, Dr Angelina Piccoli, Dr Leann Pape, Dr Audrey Washburn and Dr Katie Redd provided high quality high volume (HQHV) spay/neuter services. Much of this support is funded by the Bissell Fix the Future program. Wild Blue continues its trap/neuter/return program - Frontier Ferals - focusing on pregnant and nursing feral cats and their kittens. Our Fix Feline Families program continued during 2025 and is funded primarily using grant funding from the Petco Foundation, Petsmart Charities and our fundraising efforts. Our feral cat sanctuary - Maya's Friends Wildheart Village was expanded in 2019 to add a second sanctuary primarily for nursing and pregnant mothers. In 2024 we added Bilbo's Barn Buddies, to house cats in our Barn Cat program. Kaylene's Cradle is Wild Blue's nursery and the highlights for 2025 include: 22 resilient mamas found safety and love to raise their babies; 96 kittens were cared for and socialized; 48 births; and 24 orphans were cared for. The Critical Care Unit started initial construction in 2019 and was completed in 2025 and put into service. The unit includes a nursery for pregnant/nursing queens and neonatal orphaned kitties. The Critical Care Unit also has space for a limited number of FeLV positive cats. A very extensive sanctuary remodel was completed during 2025 that allows Wild Blue to provide even better care for our residents while their wait for their forever homes. Wild Blue makes extensive use of volunteers and currently has over 200 active volunteers.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
• Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 19.4%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings