Wildwood Kitten Haven & NICU
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333085918
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Independence, MO, US
- Phone
- (816)830-3386
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $35,244
- Expenses
- $36,780
- Assets
- $1
- Liabilities
- $1,536
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keri Nichol (President and Treasurer)
- Jeremy Kaidyn Bailey (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Keri Nichol (President and Treasurer)
- Jeremy Kaidyn Bailey (Vice President)
- Logan Moran (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
Saving the tiniest lives. Healing fragile hearts. Growing hope, one kitten at a time.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other Notable Programs: Wildwood Partnered with Petco Brookside Barkery Classic Functional Health and others local businesses for events and and as a place to distribute outreach education flyers to the public. Wildwood Kitten Haven is also a proud member of Independence Chamber of Commmerce
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.4%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1,536; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.