Happy Bark
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843684166
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Erie, PA, USA
- Phone
- 8147710306
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $145,705
- Expenses
- $79,838
- Assets
- $306,649
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC POLLOCK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- REBECCA MANCINI (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BENJAMIN NOBLE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ERIC POLLOCK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MATTHEW SEAGREN (TREASURER)
- REBECCA MANCINI (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
Dog rescue
What it reported doing in 2025
Happy bark is a foster home organization for dog rescue. Dog service expenses include dog pull fees, shelter fees, stripe and processing fees and supplies including dog food.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.4%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.2%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.84; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.4% of revenue deployed · 68.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.