Leo's Helping Paws Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471479854
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Lancaster, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7174759621
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,369
- Expenses
- $107,914
- Assets
- $289,696
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHY STYER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHY STYER (PRESIDENT)
- KRISTA JENKINS (VICE PRESIDE)
- BETH BUCHTER (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
Education and prevention of cruelty to animals.
What it reported doing in 2025
We are focused on reaching out to small non-profit all-volunteer rescues that do not have the resources to pay for expensive medical care. We help those rescues pay for the care and healing of dogs in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
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: 11.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.68; rating input score 86; 86th 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: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.