2019-03-22T09:24:35-07:00 2018-07-31 521544293 ARKIN AND COMPANY CHARTERED 2200 RESEARCH BLVD STE 540 ROCKVILLE MD 208503289 990 2017-08-01 522279100 Alley Cat Rescue Inc ALLE 3012775595 3906 Rhode Island Avenue Brentwood MD 20722 Louise Holton Barnes President 2018-03-19 true Terrance P Leary P00970225 3013401550 2017 2019-02-21 02:37:17Z Louise Holton Barnes 3702 Webster St Brentwood MD 20722 2700907 false false X www.saveacat.org X 1997 DE ACRs programs promote better care for community cats through trap-neuter-return. Local programs include placing unwanted cats in new homes, running a low-cost spay/neuter clinic, and providing support for local feral cat caretakers. Nationally we operate a network of CAT ACTION TEAMS across the U.S. Our May Spay Challenge has developed a national network of veterinarians offering free or low-cost TNR services. ACR's mission is to lead the way for humane care for all cats. 5 4 20 20 0 1461507 2615200 780 3215 -1224 5936 36003 43715 1497066 2668066 11364 0 0 467920 625049 0 251355 915889 1445300 1395173 2070349 101893 597717 1051736 1650484 312314 332438 739422 1318046 X ACRs programs promote better care for community cats through trap-neuter-return. Local programs include placing unwanted cats in new homes, running a low-cost spay/neuter clinic, and providing support for local feral cat caretakers. Nationally we operate a network of CAT ACTION TEAMS across the U.S. Our May Spay Challenge has developed a national network of veterinarians offering free or low-cost TNR services. ACR's mission is to lead the way for humane care for all cats. false false 487101 ACR offers a low-cost spay/neuter clinic to low income residents of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC.ACR WORKS TO PROTECT CATS ON SEVERAL LEVELS: LOCALLY THROUGH RESCUE, REHABILITATION, ADOPTION; AND NATIONALLY THROUGH A NETWORK OF CAT ACTION TEAMS. ACR IS DEDICATED TOTHE HEALTH, WELL BEING, AND WELFARE OF ALL CATS.More than 40,500 cats, both adoptable and feral, have been sterilized and vetted through ACR's spay/neuter program.In addition, approximately 60,000 feral cats have been sterilized through ACR's National May Spay Challenge/Feral Cat Spay Day campaign, since its inception in 2010.More than 1,200 veterinarians in 45 U.S. states have participated in ACR's Feral Cat Spay Day campaign, along with veterinarians in Canada, Croatia, Israel, and South Africa. 60,000 community cats have been sterilized as a result of our May Spay Challenge. Through this program ACR also strives to bridge the gap between rescue groups, veterinarians, and cat caretakers.Staff and volunteers provide veterinary services and daily lifesaving care to multiple community cat colonies across the D.C. Metro area.Through the work of an ACR board member, they now run a rescue and TNR operation in California. Nearly 800 feral cats have been TNRd in 2018.The Los Angeles program runs workshops and trains people to TNR. This team has established a network in L.A. and together they work on placing cats and kittens, providing TNR for feral cat populations, and they assist other cat caretakers.Alley Cat Rescue is running a TNR project in South Africa. This is being done in the area around the Kruger National Park, and will result in keeping African Wildcats in the Park free of hybridization. ACR has assisted the International cat community with small grants in Greece, South Africa and Puerto Rico to help them sterilize and vaccinate animals.ACR has worked for two years in Roanoke, Virginia providing community cat workshops and TNRing hundreds of feral cats.ACR runs a weekly spay-neuter clinic in Maryland where we have spayed and neutered a few thousand cats. 319816 ACRs adoption program finds loving, furrever homes for about 250 cats and kittens each year. ACR finds homes for abandoned, stray, and relinquished cats. They also socialize feral kittens and work to find barn homes for feral cats. Prior to adoption, all cats receive a medical evaluation, including sterilization, vaccinations, testing, and are treated for parasites. All cats and kittens also undergo a temperament analysis prior to re-homing. If a cat or kitten is unable to be socialized, ACR will find a barn home. For friendly cats, ACR partners with a local store with a national affiliation to function as an adoption center. Their innovative adoption program has helped thousands of stray and abandoned cats find good homes.Over 7,300 cats have found forever homes through ACRs adoption program. 281096 ACR provides the public with the most pertinent information regarding proper cat care, humane population control, zoonotic disease prevention, and humane treatment of all animals. They also keep cats out of the shelter system, thus reducing euthanasia.With the help of ACR's small staff and team of dedicated volunteers, ACR relocates many community cat colonies, when the cats safety is in jeopardy to farms and to businesses in the area.Through our partnership with animal shelters, we have rescued more than 2,000 cats from being euthanized in high-kill facilities in Maryland and In Los Angeles.ACR partners with shelters to save feral cats from being euthanized by having them returned to their respective colonies. 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The benefit of a tax position is recognized in the financial statements in the period during which, based on all available evidence, management believes it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained upon examination, including the resolution of appeals or litigation processes, if any. Tax positions taken are not offset or aggregated with other positions. Tax positions that meet the more-likely-than-not recognition threshold are measured as the largest amount of tax benefit that is more than 50 percent likely of being realized upon settlement with the applicable taxing authority. The portion of the benefits associated with tax positions taken that exceeds the amount measured as described above is reflected as a liability for unrecognized tax benefits in the accompanying balance sheets, along with any associated interest and penalties that would be payable to the taxing authorities upon examination. Alley Cat Rescue has determined that no such liabilities were required at July 31, 2018. Pervaiz Manzoor former board member 8307 veterinary false X 1 192606 Fair Market Value false false false Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: ACR routinely publishes newsletters and other mailing to disseminate information about ACR and what they are doing in the community.In 2015, ACR published Alley Cat Rescues Guide to Managing Community Cats by Louise Holton. This handbook provides and abundance of scientific evidence dispelling misinformation, a how-to guide for implementing TNR, a guide of zoonotic diseases, and much more helpful information regarding community cats. Distributed to more than 6,000 people, organizations and local and national government officials.ACR created the first ever fact sheet on proper feral cat colony management procedures.Over 250,000 Pet Trust brochures have been distributed to assist individuals with the planning for long-term care of their pets.ACRs educational and informative Newsletters have won many awards from the Cat Writers Association for numerous years. This publication is distributed to 80,000 members annually and has a reach of over 200,000.Action Alerts are distributed by ACRs communications team to notify the public of animal welfare situations needing attention in the U.S., and internationally. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: For many years, ACR has been engaged in promoting humane solutions to resolving the complex issues of cat overpopulation, especially those relating to feral cats. They are often classified as "non-native" species, despite that they have been living in a feral state in the United States for almost 500 years. Their programs and campaigns to end the killing of healthy stray and feral cats in local shelters are diverse. They range from actual, hands-on trapping and sterilization of cats, to running low-cost spay clinics for companion cats, as well as promoting education and public relations to help cats. They are constantly working to put an end to the myths and misinformation surrounding these innocent creatures. When cats are considered nothing more than "pests" and "nuisances," this current trend of scapegoating dangerously fosters and promotes cruelty to animals. ACR believes that ALL animals, whether "exotic," "alien," or "introduced," deserve respect and compassion, and if humane, non-lethal methods for controlling their populations are offered, then these should be the preferred methods--instead of out-dated, inhumane, lethal eradication techniques.ACRs Community Cat Outreach Program provides free training to citizens, municipalities, and animal control officers on proper cat care and TNR procedures. This year trainings were conducted in West Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.ACR conducted the first ever feral cat survey. The results showed that feral cats in managed colonies live good, long lives. Some feral cats live until they are between 8 and 14 years old.In 2015, ACR has conducted a second feral cat survey. The results published in 2016 showed more cat groups reported that animal control agencies now approve of TNR. Groups are also working better with local governments. Our education and advocacy efforts are succeeding in spreading awareness to policy makers. Groups reported that there are now smaller colony sizes bolstering the fact that TNR is effective in reducing outdoor cat populations. Results also show that 94% of groups report colony cats are aged 6 years and older, refuting the notion that outdoor cats can only have short, harsh livesACR Supports and promotes the SOI Dogs Foundation mission to end the suffering and torture animals in the Asian cat and dog meat trade.ACR staff members provide hands on job training to blind and deaf students of both Gallaudet University and The ARC School.ACR staff mentored and provided hands on job training to Bladensburg High School student interns.ACR has an ongoing partnership presenting to Friends Community School elementary students on importance of showing compassion & kindness to all animals, proper cat care procedures,and spay/neuter.ACR works with Pre-vet students at the University of Maryland, giving some paid internships at our office to teach them hands-on cat care and non-profit admin work. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: National Cat Action Teams, or CAT, assist groups and individuals to help domestic and feral cats. ACR provides a nationwide listing of groups and organizations, organized by state, for the benefit of interested parties who would like to help with feral cats in their area. The listing provides the name of the organization and a link to the website as well as telephone numbers and email addresses when available.ACRs network of feral colony caretakers called National Cat Action Teams on listed on our website and they provide an open line of communication between rescue groups and cat caretakers and the publics across the country. Each group received copies of ACRs Guide to Managing Community Cats to ensure they can provide assistance and resources across the country.ACR Staff attends conferences across the United States to help us provide the most up-to-date advances in research on cats, and the most current methods of health care to share with others to help felines everywhere. Also, to provide the public with the most pertinent information regarding proper cat care, humane population control, zoonotic disease prevention, and humane treatment of all animals. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The form 990 is provided to the organization's governing body via email. The governing body reviews and approves the form 990 prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15a: Compensation Review & Approval Process - CEO, Top Management Compensation for the organization's top management officials and officers or key employees are discussed and approved by the board of directors. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees Compensation for the organization's top management officials and officers or key employees are discussed and approved by the board of directors. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available The organization makes its governing documents, form 990, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Awards and Grants: Column (A) - Total = $4000; Column (B) - Program Services = $4000; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Bank charges: Column (A) - Total = $15289; Column (B) - Program Services = $14924; Column (C) - Management & General = $194; Column (D) - Fundraising = $171 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Boarding: Column (A) - Total = $17034; Column (B) - Program Services = $17034; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Caging Service: Column (A) - Total = $26507; Column (B) - Program Services = $25874; Column (C) - Management & General = $336; Column (D) - Fundraising = $297 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Donation: Column (A) - Total = $15026; Column (B) - Program Services = $15026; Column (C) - Management & General = $0; Column (D) - Fundraising = $0 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Dues & Subscriptions: Column (A) - Total = $7682; Column (B) - Program Services = $7498; Column (C) - Management & General = $98; Column (D) - Fundraising = $86 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Food and Beverage: Column (A) - Total = $3632; Column (B) - Program Services = $3545; Column (C) - Management & General = $46; Column (D) - Fundraising = $41 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Mailing list costs: Column (A) - Total = $60739; Column (B) - Program Services = $32710; Column (C) - Management & General = $10322; Column (D) - Fundraising = $17707 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Miscellaneous expense: Column (A) - Total = $4131; Column (B) - Program Services = $4033; Column (C) - Management & General = $53; Column (D) - Fundraising = $45 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Repair & maintenance: Column (A) - Total = $70526; Column (B) - Program Services = $68840; Column (C) - Management & General = $896; Column (D) - Fundraising = $790 Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e: Other Expenses Utilities: Column (A) - Total = $11866; Column (B) - Program Services = $11582; Column (C) - Management & General = $151; Column (D) - Fundraising = $133