2025-11-14T09:06:19-08:00 2024-12-31 472433079 MTA Accounting PA 71 High St Belfast ME 04915 990 2024-01-01 237423028 PAWS Animal Adoption Center PAWS 2072368702 PO Box 707 Rockport ME 04856 Jill Parker Vice President 2025-11-14 true true Kali T McCarthy CPA P01069497 2073385012 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Jill Parker PO Box 707 Rockport ME 04856 995600 false X www.pawsadoption.org X 1974 ME Our mission is to provide care for homeless dogs and cats until they can be placed in permanent, responsible homes while promoting humane values in our community through outreach and educational programs. 9 9 38 65 0 780741 497225 292044 301614 50274 40339 129185 115683 1252244 954861 0 0 732313 858332 0 53189 317961 366393 1050274 1224725 201970 -269864 2516812 2394198 135249 195278 2381563 2198920 Our mission is to provide care for homeless dogs and cats until they can be placed in permanent, responsible homes while promoting humane values in our community through outreach and educational programs. false false 872554 301614 PAWS provides services for homeless cats and dogs, those at-risk of becoming homeless, and pet owners in the twelve communities we serve and in the outlying communities. Additionally, PAWS provides outreach, education and support to pet owners, provides affordable spay/neuter, wellness clinics, and preventatives to pets of low-income residents, rescue cats and dogs from high kill shelters in Georgia and Puerto Rico and advocates both locally and at the state level for animal welfare in our community and statewide.Two of our most important programs are the care of our communities homeless, abused, and abandoned cats and dogs and our PAWS Cares community veterinary clinic for low-income pet owners, including spay and neuter, wellness exams, preventatives, and life-saving vaccines. In 2024 we placed 469 stray & unwanted cats and dogs at the shelter placed 95% of them into forever homes. Additionally, we provided 325 pet owners with free pet food and supplies through the Pet Food Pantry, and performed 914 spay/neuter surgeries for community-owned pets. Provided low-cost veterinary care for 3,690 owned pets in need. Reunited 63 lost pets with their family, saved 82 cats and dogs from being euthanized in high-kill shelters in the south, and assisted 197 pets from low-income households, pets of survivors of domestic violence, pets in need of housing while their owners battle temporary homelessness, and extended stays in the hospital. PAWS provides numerous benefits to our community. We work to humanely address the issues of animal control by partnering with our town and their animal control officers to care for the lost, abandoned, and unwanted cats and dogs.We work with the community at large to match pets with loving homesthrough adoption services and we help provide quality veterinary care to every animal who enters our facility. PAWS maintains a firm commitment to educate the local community on the matters of pet care, animal safety, and the importance of spaying and neutering, animal immunizations, and disease control. Additionally, through various programs and services we help to strengthen the human-animal bond of hundreds of pet owners each year.Today PAWS offers the following programs and services:1.Services for lost and found and stray/at-large dogs and cats2.Owner surrenders to our community members who cannot keep their pets3.Adoption. The care and placement of homeless cats and dogs. It is why we started the organization and why we continue to today. It is paramount to our mission.4.PAWS Cares Clinics AND community wellness programs - this incudes rabies vaccinations and microchipping, preventatives, veterinary exams and Spay/Neuter Program.5.Pet Safe Program - a program to help victims of domestic violence, those experiencing temporary homelessness, and/or have been admitted to the hospital, so they can safely board their pets.6.Foster Program & Fospice Program (hospice for elderly pets)7.A Home for ME - animal transport program with partner rescues in the South (Puerto Rico & GA)8.Home to Home - an alternative to surrendering your pet to the shelter9.Pet Loss Support Group - Online 872554 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 3 0 true 38 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 9 9 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false X Andrew Weeks 2072300885 PO Box 707 Rockport ME 04856 X Shelly Butler Previous Executive Director 40.00 0.00 60533 0 0 Casey Baugher Executive Director 40.00 0.00 35000 0 0 Jill Parker Vice President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Rieko McCarthy Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Andrew Weeks Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Cheryl Ayer Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Tom Griffith Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Debra Hall Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jean White Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Valery Riemer Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Michelle Davis President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 95533 0 false false false 0 497225 497225 Dog Park 541900 6640 6640 Program Income 541900 156107 156107 Shelter Income 541900 95117 95117 State and Municipal Allot 541900 43750 43750 301614 40339 40339 0 0 0 0 146916 39688 107228 0 9506 1051 8455 8455 0 954861 301614 48794 0 0 0 0 95533 95533 0 672117 620433 16500 35184 0 23993 2576 21417 66689 53899 9733 3057 0 9188 9188 1810 1810 0 0 6322 6322 55746 60 55686 8188 3855 3855 478 15661 1306 13099 1256 0 0 58447 21266 37181 0 0 0 1098 1098 0 48411 38395 5217 4799 33341 20729 11907 705 Shelter Operations 52862 52862 Surgical Expenses 28274 28274 PAWS Cares 21837 21837 Development 7710 7710 17498 7062 10436 1224725 872554 298982 53189 77300 16261 0 53482 45103 8934 14915 0 0 69760 64694 0 0 1717952 551258 1214688 1166694 1092061 1086362 0 0 587 169 0 2516812 2394198 11309 6293 121010 109487 2930 79498 135249 195278 X 2381563 2198920 2381563 2198920 2516812 2394198 -269864 87221 X false false false X 1576289 320923 488065 780742 497225 3663244 44381 38984 40108 46827 43750 214050 0 1620670 359907 528173 827569 540975 3877294 468645 3408649 8686 23489 53715 50274 40339 176503 0 68343 92699 146449 144500 146916 598907 4652704 913172 0.73260 0.78870 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 112258 112258 1111260 272775 838485 396636 195785 200851 90267 75601 14666 7531 7097 434 1166694 Credit Card Payable 1498 Line of Credit 78000 79498 false Golden Gala 113919 113919 5296 20833 800 7836 Weinerfest 14167 14167 88 250 1148 2513 2 18830 18830 924 146916 146916 88 5546 21981 800 11273 39688 107228 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The form 990 is reviewed by the treasurer prior to filing, and a copy is provided to the finance committee at their next meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The policy is reviewed and updated annually by the Executive Committee of the Board. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The hiring and compensation of the executive director are reviewed and approved by the board of directors and documented in the minutes. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b During the annual review and approval of the upcoming budget, the compensation of all employees is reviewed and approved and documented in the minutes. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Organizing documents and tax returns are available upon request by contacting the treasurer.