2024-05-24T10:59:04-07:00 2023-12-31 263175104 Patricia A Beckwith CPA 4630 Soquel Drive Soquel CA 95073 990EZ 2023-01-01 311576984 PROJECT PURR PROJ 8312523701 PO BOX 891 SANTA CRUZ CA 95061 LYNNE ACHTERBERG Secretary 2024-05-24 true LYNNE ACHTERBERG 999009999 true Patricia A Beckwith CPA P00549411 8314751544 X 2 AAL1 IAL1 FAL1 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z X N/A X X 88591 X 77515 171 0 0 0 0 10905 88591 750 2640 9 156802 160201 -71610 258035 186425 258035 186425 258035 186425 258035 186425 Project Purr is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives of unsocialized cats and kittens by providing accessible low cost feral cat spay/neuter to all Santa Cruz County, California residents, regardless of income. Project Purr advocates Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) as the only effective and humane solution to reducing cat overpopulation. Project Purr is a feral cat advocacy organization founded in 1987 to humanely reduce the cat overpopulation in Santa Cruz County, California. This all-volunteer nonprofit funds the only countywide free spay/neuter program for feral cats/kittens, available to all county residents, regardless of income and no voucher required. Project Purr promotes and supports an ongoing Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program to end the homeless animal crisis, while teaching nonviolence and tolerance for others. Project Purr believes in a feral cats right to life as part of our mission. Our goal is to educate, encourage, and enable as many people locally as possible to facilitate TNR themselves. The more people we educate and involve, and the more acceptable the concepts of community cats and TNR become, the more cats lives will be saved. Since Project Purrs inception 36 years ago, nearly 18,000 Santa Cruz County feral cats and kittens have been sterilized for free through our program, at a cost to Project Purr of almost $2 million! (average cost of $107 per cat) In 2023, Project Purr accomplished 1053 spay/neuters at a cost of over $144,000 which included 6 mobile SNIP/Spay Neuter Imperative Project feral cat veterinary clinics. These combined efforts prevented the births of thousands of unwanted kittens born to a life of uncertainty and reduced the number of animals entering the shelter. But with ever-increasing veterinary costs and the need for more feral cat spay/neuter, and dependent on donations, Project Purr is now failing to make ends meet.Project Purrs programs serve as models to recognize the importance of individual actions by implementing new ideas and techniques while teaching our children a kinder way to treat animals. Our vision of working together with the community to find humane, compassionate solutions will help create long-term change. Project Purr will continue to partner with other local rescue organizations helping animals to reduce the community cat population. The result will be safer, happier, and healthier communities -- and better lives for its community cats too.Together, we can do more. And someday, we hope to save them all. 151092 151092 MARGARET ANN RINNER President 1.00 0 LYNNE ACHTERBERG Secretary 40.00 0 RACHEL KRZECZOWSKI Director 0 0 SUZANNE HABERMAN Director 0.50 0 LESLIE KRZECZOWSKI Treasurer 1.00 0 KAILEE HUEBNER Director 0 0 ANN T PARKER Director 0 0 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false CA MARGARET RINNER 5047 THURBER LANE SANTA CRUZ CA 95065 8314236369 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 45139 51178 78881 75791 77515 328504 0 0 45139 51178 78881 75791 77515 328504 0 328504 225 139 51 62 171 648 0 0 329152 0.99800 0.99820 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Other Revenue.1 FURNITURE RESALE $10905 Other Expenses.1001 Advertising and Promotion $134 Other Expenses.1002 Office Expenses $784 Other Expenses.1005 Travel $1720 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $2744 Other Expenses.1 VETERINARY SERVICES $142358 Other Expenses.2 PETSUPPLIES $4015 Other Expenses.3 TELEPHONE $1847 Other Expenses.4 MICRO CHIPS $1700 Other Expenses.5 TOOLS $840 Other Expenses.6 FILING FEES/CITY TAXES $328 Other Expenses.7 OTHER EXP. $300 Other Expenses.8 REPAIRS $32 ADDITIONAL PROGRAM SERVICES DURING FISCAL 2014 THE ORGANIZATION ADDED A THRIFT SHOP TO THEIR ACTIVITIES. THE STORE ACCEPTS GENTLY USED TREASURES. ALL PROCEEDS GO TO FULFILL THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION.