Heaven Can Wait Animal Rescue and Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271904972
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Franklin, TN, USA
- Phone
- 7194401634
- Rating
- 98
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,773
- Expenses
- $70,857
- Assets
- $138,433
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cindy Johnston (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Cindy Johnston (Board President)
- Katherine Rouze (Board Secretary)
- Kelly Cain (Board 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
Small dog animal rescue and sanctuary - our purpose is to rescue, care for and provide safe haven for neglected, unwanted, injured, abandoned and hospice owners' dogs
What it reported doing in 2025
Care and feeding of rescues - vet care, medical (includes dentals, spay/neuter) before they are ready for adoption/new families. Our primary purpose is to rescue and provide safe haven for neglected, unwanted, injured, abandoned and/or companion animals. Throughout the year, we rescue many, provide sanctuary for those in need no one else will take, and work with other rescues to save precious souls. Our success is built on the strong relationships and extraordinary support of our adopters, supported, partners and donors that enable us to perform this life-saving work for rescues. This year our expenses totaled $51,887.99 and we averaged 30 dogs throughout the year, to include our sanctuary dogs. During the year, we took 2 groups of rescues when the dog breeder fell ill and provided medical care, treatment and healing. Several have been adopted with those remaining requiring on-going medical care and treatment. When each dog comes into rescue, we spend an average of $750 for initial vet assessment, bloodwork, dental and vaccinations. Those needing additional medical attention like surgeries for mass removal, eye/ear infections, or other health issues run into thousands of dollars. Our goal remains to get each dog healthy or be treatable and happy resulting in a loving family of their own. Those who need more remain with us forever in sanctuary and are surrounded with love and get whatever they need for a safe, comfortable, quality of life. We are an all volunteer rescue and sanctuary. We continue to work with other rescues to bring big dogs in need into rescue and safety. Many dogs have found loving homes and are part of those families, some remain dreaming of their own families, and some have crossed the rainbow.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 25.2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 65; 65th 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: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $104K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.