Dharma Rescue for Cats and Dogs
Overview
Mission
Rescue senior and handicapped dogs and cats and provide them food, shelter, and medical treatment
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800266821
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Headquarters
- Gardena, CA, USA
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
- Affiliation
- Buddhism
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 67
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.6%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 46.6%; rating input score 47
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.03; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.32; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.6% of revenue deployed · 46.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $253K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.