Good Dog Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813758756
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fort Lupton, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3036531264
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,577
- Expenses
- $23,157
- Assets
- $73,705
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Marie Hackett (President)
People named in this filing
- Marie Hackett (President)
- Stacey Swetil-Rust (Secretary)
- Stephanie Egeberg (Board Member)
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
To save dogs from high kill shelters and place them into loving foster homes. Prior to adoption our dogs will be vetted, spayed or neutered and nurtured to join a supportive and loving home environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
2025 continued to be challenging for the animal welfare world - adoptions remained slow, several of our long term fosters have taken breaks or left, finding new dedicated fosters is difficult, and local shelters are also full so the supply of dogs far outweighs the demand. Despite these challenges, we still rescued 81 dogs and puppies, primarily from high kill shelters and urgent situations. All of our dogs live in our homes with us and are loved like our own pets. They are all fully vetted prior to adoption, and we have a trainer that helps us work through any behavioral issues. One of our special projects is keeping dogs in their homes. We offer post-adoption support in the form of periodic check ins, providing free training classes weekly for adopters to attend in person, and also have videos and other training materials we can send out for people to work on at home. We volunteered at 12 pet food banks in the Denver area - one a month. We distributed dog and cat food in partnership with a human food bank to help folks who may need to choose between feeding themselves or their pets. We also help cover vet bills if a family is faced with having to relinquish their pet because they cant afford their care. Our second special project is Spay/Neuter. It's becoming more apparent than ever that we can't rescue ourselves out of the pet overpopulation problem, we also need programs that slow down population growth. We are passionate about and dedicated to providing low cost spay/neuter surgeries to under-served areas in Colorado and New Mexico. For the last 6 years we have partnered with an amazing spay/neuter alliance and have been fortunate enough to volunteer at 4 of the clinics as well as helping with funding. We are hoping to ramp up our spay/neuter support in 2026 because rescue and adoption alone is like "trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon"!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.8%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 59.6%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.8%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.18; rating input score 76; 76th 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: -32.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.8% of revenue deployed · 59.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.