For Pets Sake Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844175505
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Long Beach, MS, USA
- Phone
- 2282027125
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $184,895
- Expenses
- $204,420
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Vanessa Cruz (President)
- Landon Lander (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Vanessa Cruz (President)
- Landon Lander (Vice President)
- Gene Edward Nickels Jr (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At For Pet? s Sake Rescue in Long Beach, MS, our mission is to provide stray and abused animals with a safe haven where they can heal, learn to trust, and prepare for life as cherished companions. We are dedicated to carefully matching each animal with the right adopter, giving them the best chance at a forever home where they will never be misplaced again. For Pet's Sake Rescue was established in 2019 in Long Beach, MS. Each year, our intake increases by hundreds of animals. For Pet's Sake Rescue helps Harrison County, Hancock County, Jackson County and George County. Our focus is on transporting animals out of the South to help reduce the overpopulation issue and the continued circulation of animals within the MS Gulf Coast.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our facility provides a structured environment where animals can heal physically and emotionally. For Pet's Sake Rescue works on socializing animals, building trust with humans, and teaching household manners that increase their chances of successful adoption. Each animal receives individualized care plans designed to address their specific needs and prepare them for placement in a permanent home. The facility serves as a hub for organizing community outreach efforts, including adoption events, foster coordination, pet retention assistance, and partnerships with local veterinarians and animal welfare organizations. Through these services, For Pet? s Sake Rescue helps reduce shelter overcrowding, improve animal welfare outcomes, and increase access to lifesaving resources for pets and their families.
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. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $177K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.