- 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Vicky Thrasher
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $136,248
- From this org
- $126,140
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $10,108
- Hours/week
- 40
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Larry Keller
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Joann Keller
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Linda Daniels
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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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
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,327,505
- Expenses
- $2,315,973
- Contributions
- $106,430
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,291,958
- Expenses
- $1,892,266
- Assets (EOY)
- $875,767
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,448,532
- Expenses
- $1,378,631
- Assets (EOY)
- $496,341
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,253,923
- Expenses
- $1,243,380
- Assets (EOY)
- $312,460
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $911,220
- Expenses
- $863,670
- Assets (EOY)
- $195,732
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $693,723
- Expenses
- $723,961
- Assets (EOY)
- $183,746
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $304,941
- Assets (EOY)
- $223,971
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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
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$50,000
2022 Animal Protection and Welfare
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CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$11,250
2023 CHARITABLE DONATION
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$10,000
2022 Dog and Cat Rescue
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$8,400
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 CHARITABLE DONATION
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2022 CHARITABLE DONATION
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.