Dog Days Search & Rescue

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473916868
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Simi Valley, CA, USA
Phone
8184277778
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,911
Expenses
$53,361
Assets
$51,434
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JoAnn DeCollibus (CEO/Co-Founder/Director)

People named in this filing

  • JoAnn DeCollibus (CEO/Co-Founder/Director)
  • Apryll Geib (CFO/Director)
  • Sue Tuxill (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our primary purpose is to help lost animals reunite with their owners. We also help abandoned or stray animals in need. We provide medical care to those in need, including spay & neuter. We work closely with local animal shelters and we manage multiple lost & found pet social media pages. We may incur boarding and training costs for animals that are not reclaimed by owners or that need assistance transitioning to an adopter home. We have various humane traps, field cameras, live cameras, kennels, thermal scanners, mobile fencing, microchip scanners, and other items to assist.

What it reported doing in 2025

We help reunite hundreds of animals annually, including domestic dogs and cats. Our services may be on-site or through coaching. The time to reunite a lost pet can vary from a few minutes, to a few days or a few months. Our volunteers may travel several hours to be on-site or may help a local neighbor. We may provide veterinarian care for injured pets and assist with spay & neuter. Stray animals may be cared for by our team during stray-holds up to an including adoption placement. We provide care to these animals including food, veterinarian care, boarding and professional training if necessary. Dog Days Search & Rescue total expenses 2025 were $53,361. Program expenses of $41,758 supported the reunifications and care of rescued pets, including veterinarian costs. Administrative expenses of $11,603 supported management and general operations, including banking and transaction fees, insurance, legal and professional services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 24.7%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.