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WORLD VETS

EIN 20-4637447 GIG HARBOR, WA

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Revenue 2024
$1,675,148
Expenses 2024
$1,199,055

Program services were 89.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
1200
Street
9711 18TH AVE NW

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

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including wildlife rescue and conservation on the Galapagos Islands and the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest.

  • Helping animals, people and the places they call home. For nearly 25 years, World Vets has provided veterinary aid programs and support in over 50 countries on 6 continents benefiting hundreds of thousands of animals. Programs include spay/neuter, public health, street dog management through vaccination and sterilization, livestock programs, equine programs helping working horses and donkeys, disaster response, wildlife rescue and marine animal programs (including stranding response, rescue of sick, injured or stranded marine animals in the wild, research, protection & conservation). Each year we carry out numerous free sterilization campaigns for dogs and cats in various countries including a large-scale program in the Imbabura region of Ecuador where we have worked for over 16 years. World Vets operates a full-service, free of charge veterinary clinic for domestic animals in the Galapagos Islands and provides wildlife rescue services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year on the Galapagos Islands. In 2024 World Vets built the first wildlife rescue hospital on San Cristobal Island, Galapagos which is used to care for and treat a variety of mostly endangered and other endemic species. In addition, we donated to the Galapagos National Park a 4-wheel drive rescue truck and a zodiac rescue boat as well as a large amount of veterinary equipment and supplies that are used in the wildlife rapid response program through World Vets. World Vets provides heath monitoring for wildlife including the annual health exams for Galapagos giant tortoises. We have a strong focus on local capacity building and empower local professional to promote local term sustainability. Through a largely volunteer workforce of highly skilled professionals along with a small, dedicated staff, World Vets can leverage resources for maximum impact and sustainability.

    Expenses $1,070,174 · Revenue $238,067

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.

  • Cathy King DVM PHD

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $257,440
    From this org
    $217,021
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,419
    Hours/week
    60

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $217,021
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $40,419
    Filer's total
    $257,440
  • Suzanne Coulson DVM

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Erica Gillum DVM

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mushtaq Memon BVSsc MSc PHD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Susan Paseman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Heather McCabe

    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
    $1,675,148
    Expenses
    $1,199,055
    Contributions
    $1,365,228
    Grants paid
    $146,778
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $921,994
    Expenses
    $931,076
    Contributions
    $681,566
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $959,316
    Expenses
    $813,865
    Contributions
    $730,214
    Grants paid
    $25,866

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
    $757,532
    Expenses
    $666,621
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,079,319
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $647,993
    Expenses
    $649,937
    Assets (EOY)
    $987,890
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,090,834
    Expenses
    $1,031,653
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,019,480
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $979,373
    Expenses
    $985,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $938,328
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $962,794
    Expenses
    $1,004,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,100,876
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $945,978
    Expenses
    $1,001,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,212,002
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $972,504
    Expenses
    $998,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,124,969
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $998,165
    Expenses
    $949,791
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,166,561
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $883,754
    Expenses
    $888,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,107,901
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $991,364
    Expenses
    $1,002,959
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,117,139

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • Foundation World Vets Ecuador

    WILDLIFE RESCUE AND VETERINARIAN CARE · EC

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.