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CRITTERS WITHOUT LITTERS INC

EIN 27-1606167 BAKERSFIELD, CA

Revenue 2023
$2,327,505
Expenses 2023
$2,315,973

Program services were 90.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
1000
Street
4300 STINE RD STE 720

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Critters Without Litters provides high-volume, high-quality, subsidized companion animal sterilization. We seek to end the preventable euthanasia of healthy, adoptable pets in Kern County through strong alliances with the community, local businesses and nonprofit organizations to increase the number of cats and dogs that are spayed and neutered.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Our clinic opened in 2012 to reduce the number of healthy, adoptable animals being euthanized in our shelters due to overpopulation, by offering accessible, affordable spay/neuter services.

  • Provides high-volume, high-quality, subsidized companion animal sterilization as well as trap-nueter-vaccinate-return TNVR services for city and county feral and free-roaming cates. Seek to end the preventable euthanasia of healthy, adoptable pets in Kern County, CA. The Organization also provides dog and cat vaccine and microchip services.

    Expenses $2,103,350 · Revenue $2,197,684

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Deidra Metzler

    Veterinarian

    Total calculated
    $170,539
    From this org
    $162,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,739
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $162,800
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,884
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,855
    Filer's total
    $170,539
  • Sarah Steen

    Medical Director

    Total calculated
    $161,958
    From this org
    $154,071
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,887
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,071
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $4,622
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,265
    Filer's total
    $161,958
  • Vicky Thrasher

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $136,248
    From this org
    $126,140
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,108
    Hours/week
    40
  • Larry Keller

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Joann Keller

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Linda Daniels

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tom Webster

    Member at Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,327,505
    Expenses
    $2,315,973
    Contributions
    $106,430
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,330,098
    Expenses
    $2,275,973
    Contributions
    $231,499
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,291,958
    Expenses
    $1,892,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $875,767
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,448,532
    Expenses
    $1,378,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $496,341
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,253,923
    Expenses
    $1,243,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $312,460
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $911,220
    Expenses
    $863,670
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,732
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $693,723
    Expenses
    $723,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $183,746
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $304,941
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,971
  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $78,635
    Expenses
    $76,180
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,576

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.