Heart Dog Harbor

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
333414063
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Fairfield, CA, USA
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$57,341
Expenses
$11,158
Assets
$51,183
Liabilities
$5,000

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kathleen Alford (Executive Director)
  • Caysen Russo (Board Member - President)

People named in this filing

  • Kathleen Alford (Executive Director)
  • Caysen Russo (Board Member - President)
  • Rhona Baum (Board Member - 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

Heart Dog Harbor rescues homeless and at-risk dogs from shelters with a focus on animals at risk of euthanasia. The organization provides veterinary care behavioral assessment and training foster placement and adoption services to prepare dogs for successful placement in permanent homes. In addition Heart Dog Harbor promotes responsible pet ownership through education community outreach and support for adopters.

What it reported doing in 2025

Heart Dog Harbor initiated its foster-based rescue program during the tax year placing one at-risk dog into a foster home and providing individualized care including veterinary support and behavioral stabilization to prepare the dog for adoption. In addition to direct animal care the organization focused on building the infrastructure required to scale the program including recruiting and onboarding foster volunteers developing foster policies and procedures establishing veterinary partnerships and creating systems for intake placement and adoption coordination. These foundational efforts position the organization to expand foster capacity and increase the number of dogs served in future years with the goal of reducing shelter overcrowding and improving outcomes for dogs with medical and behavioral needs.

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 26
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 10.4%; rating input score 10
  • Program expense ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 53

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: 80.5%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.59; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 10.4% of revenue deployed · 53.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 10/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.