Wolly Kitten Club

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
862585890
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
5074002287
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$78,113
Expenses
$52,185
Assets
$103,421
Liabilities
$1,256

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SARAH WOOD DVM (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • AVERY VON EIFF (SECRETARY)
  • SARAH WOOD DVM (PRESIDENT)
  • CYNTHIA PONTON (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Wolly kitten club is a mostly volunteer organization dedicated to preventing cruelty to animals. We rescue, foster, rehabilitate and re-home abandoned cats and kittens in the greater houston area. We receive animals from local shelters, through public requests for help and through rescue by our volunteers. We provide shelter in our foster homes, nutrition, supplements, veterinary care including vaccines and sterilization, medications and socialization (if needed) to restore their health so they can be adopted. The majority of our cats and kittens are served through our foster-to-transport program while community cats and those not socialized to humans are t/n/r'd (trapped/neuter/release). Even though we did not incorporate until 2021, we have maintained animal records for the past 7 years. From january 1, 2018 to december 31, 2025 our organization served 4,333 cats and kittens with a 99.15% save rate.

What it reported doing in 2025

Foster-to-transport program: due to the significant animal overpopulation in southeast Texas and lack of local adopters, we have partnered with a local transport organization and a receiving rescue organization in Minnesota to find homes for our foster cats and kittens. In 2025, we rescued, fostered and provided veterinary care to 782 cats and kittens who were then transported to Minnesota to be adopted into loving homes. In 2025, our average daily census was 75 cats and kittens and they stayed in our care an average of 35 days. However we are committed to fostering each cat or kitten for as long as necessary until they are ready for adoption, so there is no limit on how long they stay in foster care and they are never euthanized for space.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 33.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.98; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 35.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $52K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.