El Dorado County German Shepherd Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 481272724
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Shingle Springs, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5306776444
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,214
- Expenses
- $81,031
- Assets
- $145,920
- Liabilities
- $4,528
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CINDY WILLIAMS (President)
- RAY WIEAND (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- CINDY WILLIAMS (President)
- RAY WIEAND (Vice President)
- JAMES WIRFEL (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
El Dorado County German Shepherd Rescue provides refuge and makes ready for adoption, unwanted, abused, abandoned, or neglected German Shepherds, or GSD mixes. We educate the public regarding animal welfare and the importance of spaying and neutering. German Shepherds which are unwanted or unable to be adopted by local animal control services are brought to our facility where they are fully vetted, rehabilitated, AND socialized in order to be adopted out to provide excellent companions in their forever home. Our organization reaches out to the public through scout troops, elementary and high school students with a volunteer program, local business and offers a community service program resulting in education on the importance of spaying and neutering their pets and exposure to the needed care of abandonED animals.
What it reported doing in 2025
El dorado county german shepherd rescue currently avereages placing 20 dogs per year in adoptive forever homes. When needed, we also place a few dogs into foster care which most of the time results in an adoption. Pending adoption, most of the dogs reside at the board member's ranch pro bono and receive feeding, excercise, training, socialization and veterinary care. We provide dog training for those who adopt from us, on and off site, twice a month, and have excellent dog trainers who donate their time to help specific behavioral issues and provide general best practices for new dog owners to further enhance the bond between the dogs and their new owners. We provided community service to those who are mandated by a court or to satisfy high school requirements. We receive our dogs from city, county and spca animal organizations to support them in order to prevent needless euthanasia.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
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: 8.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.