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BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER INC

EIN 86-1130456 BROOKLYN, MD

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Revenue 2024
$7,977,497
Expenses 2024
$7,313,707

Program services were 86.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
4000
Street
2490 GILES RD

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 · 2024

Mission

BARCS TAKES IN OVER 11,000 DOGS AND CATS AND APPROXIMATELY 1,000 EXOTIC, WILDLIFE AND OTHER SMALL MAMMALS EACH YEAR. THE ANIMALS THAT BARCS CARES FOR WERE LOST, ABANDONED, ABUSED, NEGLECTED OR SURRENDERED BY THEIR OWNERS. SINCE BARCS TOOK OVER THE OPERATIONS OF THE CITY SHELTER AT THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 2006, THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS LIVES SAVED INCREASED DRAMATICALLY TOTALING OVER 154,000 LIVES SAVED THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 2025. THE SHELTER'S SERVICES INCLUDE: PROVIDING HOUSING AND CARE TO HOMELESS ANIMALS, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND OUTREACH, TRACKING LOST AND FOUND PETS,OFFERING LOW-COST VACCINATIONS AND MICROCHIP CLINICS, AND PROVIDING LOW COST BASIC DOG TRAINING CLASSES. BARCS ALSO PROVIDES FAMILIES THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADOPT A COMPANION ANIMAL THAT IS SPAYED AND NEUTERED, VACCINATED, AND LOOKING FOR APERMANENT NEW LOVING HOME.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF BARCS IS TO ACCEPT AND CARE FOR ALL ANIMALS IN NEED AND TO PROMOTE RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERSHIP FOR A MORE HUMANE COMMUNITY IN BALTIMORE CITY.

  • BARCS IS THE LARGEST COMPANION SHELTER IN MARYLAND TAKING IN OVER 10,000 DOGS AND CATS EACH YEAR AND HANDLING OVER 1,000 OTHER SPECIES. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK, BARCS AIDS IN THE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION OF ABUSED AND ABANDONED ANIMALS IN NEED, PROVIDES LOW-COST SPAY/NEUTER AND VACCINE SERVICES, ASSISTS IN RETURNING LOST ANIMALS TO THEIR OWNERS AND FINDS SUITABLE HOMES FOR ANIMALS WITHOUT OWNERS. PRIOR TO BARCS INCEPTION IN 2005,THE EUTHANASIA RATE WAS 98 PERCENT. DUE TO BARCS LIFESAVING EFFORTS, THE EUTHANASIA RATE HAS DECREASED TO 10-15 PERCENT WHICH INCLUDES ANIMALS THAT POSE A RISK TO PUBLIC SAFETY, HAVE MEDICAL INJURIES BEYOND REPAIR, OR WHO ARE TRULY AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE.

    Expenses $6,293,600 · Revenue $350,381

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jennifer Brause

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $179,152
    From this org
    $173,952
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,200
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $173,952
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,200
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $179,152

  • Dr Bobbie Mammato

    DIR OF VETERINARY

    Total calculated
    $135,111
    From this org
    $135,111
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dr Barbara Press

    VETERINARIAN

    Total calculated
    $113,981
    From this org
    $113,981
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dr Francesco Sollini

    Veterinarian

    Total calculated
    $113,981
    From this org
    $113,981
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dr Emilly Rizzo Sparks

    Veterinarian

    Total calculated
    $113,959
    From this org
    $113,959
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dr Megan Keller

    Veterinarian

    Total calculated
    $113,236
    From this org
    $113,236
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Alicia L Shelton Esq

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Eric Bernthal

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Joseph De Francis

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mathew Newcomer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Paul Fox

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Gwen Sieck

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kathy Harvey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Frank Boston

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jay McDonnell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Maria Wieters

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,977,497
    Expenses
    $7,313,707
    Contributions
    $7,464,439
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,760,204
    Expenses
    $6,171,166
    Contributions
    $5,577,258
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,247,299
    Expenses
    $6,238,118
    Contributions
    $6,245,565
    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
    $5,572,927
    Expenses
    $5,750,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,079,872

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,139,928
    Expenses
    $5,068,925
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,298,274

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,102,835
    Expenses
    $4,926,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,721,445

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.