Helping Paws Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475232344
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Vista, CA, USA
Phone
7604294391
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Veterinary Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$66,969
Expenses
$33,159
Assets
$277,365

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DR CRAIG MOHNACKY (President)

People named in this filing

  • DR CRAIG MOHNACKY (President)
  • TOM JACOBI (Director)
  • SANDRA CROWLEY (Director)

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

Assist military families, impoverished families, and animals in need by providingfor veterinary care, educating the public concerning the proper care and maintenance of pets, promoting healty pet lifestyles and for related purposes.

What it reported doing in 2025

The foundation assists families that experience economic difficulties and have limited access to veterinary care. This situation often creates "economic euthanasia". The foundation's programs help prevent owners from making such decisions by assisting with veterinary ccare. The foundation's goals include providing financial assistance to military families for emergency pet care needs and promoting healthy pet lifestyles.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 45.6%; rating input score 46
  • Program expense ratio: 92%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 50.5%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 8.36; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 45.6% of revenue deployed · 92% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.