Helping Hands for Pets
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271309518
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Somerset, WI, USA
- Phone
- 715-781-8505
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $23,015
- Expenses
- $21,701
- Assets
- $46,542
- 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
- Jean Mattiacci (President)
- Amy Thurston (Vice President/Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Jean Mattiacci (President)
- Amy Thurston (Vice President/Secretary)
- Jane Terkelsen (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
Helping Hands for Pets (HH4P) is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to keeping pets in their homes by providing qualified pet owners in west central Wisconsin counties (St. Croix, Polk, Pierce, and Dunn) basic financial assistance to prevent surrender or euthanization due to financial limitations. Helping Hands for Pets (HH4P)** is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to keeping pets in their homes where they are cherished and loved. Our programs provide qualified pet owners in **west central Wisconsin counties of St. Croix, Polk, Pierce, and Dunn** basic financial assistance to keep a pet in its home rather than being surrendered to a shelter or euthanized due to financial limitations. Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals to keep pets from suffering or being surrendered when an owner isn't able to afford proper medical treatment. Your generous donation...
What it reported doing in 2025
Two pet owners were helped with food, litter and other supplies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 67; 67th 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: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.