Coastal German Shepherd Rescue of Southern California
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770645853
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Frisco, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9494398104
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $343,491
- Expenses
- $263,023
- Assets
- $1,764,487
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH CALDER (President)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH CALDER (President)
- DIANA POHN (Treasurer)
- ELIZABETH THOMPSON (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rescue services, providing necessary medical care, foster care, and placement of german shepherd dogs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Coastal German Shepherd Rescue celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2019! Still going strong, the rescue relies 100% on donations, has no paid employees, and has placed over 4,000 dogs over the years. Coastal provides a safety net for life to the dogs rescued (either through the shelter systems or from individuals who can no longer keep their dog) by writing a contract that requires that an adopted dog be returned to Coastal if the adopter can no longer care for the animal. Coastal will take back a dog no matter the reason or the age, we want our adopters to know that they will never have to relinquish their dog to a shelter. Coastal holds weekly adoption events, typically at a local Petco, in order to provide exposure and education to the general public. Coastal works hard to house their available dogs in foster care where possible but also has a boarding facility that supports the mission of the rescue. We rescue a good number of medical cases that are either found in the shelter system or come from families that are faced with insurmountable medical bills. We fundraise aggressively through a number of channels on a regular basis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.71; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $261K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 17 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.