Hop on Home Rabbit Sanctuary
Legal name: Hop on Home Rabbit Sanctuary Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844149903
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Glens Falls, NY, USA
- Phone
- (518) 248-1984
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal-Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,814
- Expenses
- $93,955
- Assets
- $24,428
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shelby Wimet-Himelrick (President)
- Sharon Sheffer (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Shelby Wimet-Himelrick (President)
- Katelyn Burrello (Board Secretary)
- Sharon Sheffer (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
Hop on Home Rabbit Sanctuary is a not-for-profit, volunteer-run organization focused on rabbit education, care, and adoption. Hop on Home's adoption center is located in Glens Falls, NY. , though many of our rabbits are sheltered with foster homes. This network of foster families is critical for the day-to-day housing and care of our rabbits. At any given time, we have many rabbits that are available for adoption. An adoption coordinator will work to match a rabbit's personality with a home that's sure to be a perfect fit. Learn more about Hop on Home's origin from Shelby's story: "As the county 4-H leader for rabbitry, it wasn’t unheard of for people to contact us when they didn’t want their rabbit anymore. That’s where I would come in. I would speak to people and help them rehome their rabbit with a 4-Her. As tim.
What it reported doing in 2025
Physical care of the rabbits is by far our largest expense. This includes food & litter as well as veterinarian expenses. Spaying and neutering is important for both rabbit health and to reduce an oversaturated population.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 revenue has grown recently. 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: 50
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 47.6%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 51.6%; rating input score 52
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 47.6% of revenue deployed · 51.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.