Little Trooper Ranch
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861286801
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Penngrove, CA, US
- Phone
- 707-228-0696
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,534
- Expenses
- $91,388
- Assets
- $65,828
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Odessa Gunn (President)
- Keli Hendricks (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Odessa Gunn (President)
- Keli Hendricks (Vice President)
- Mark Penn (Secretary)
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
Our Mission is to foster and perpetuate unconditional love.
What it reported doing in 2025
We are a passionate team dedicated to animals and the humans who will love them We primarily represent dogs, with a focus on the ones who are least likely to be seen Our Main Goal is to find loving homes that are best suited for the animals in our care. In 2025 we adopted out 44 dogs. We had 8 spay-neuter clinics during the year for dogs/puppies in our care. We rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home dogs from the streets and high-kill shelters. We take extreme medical cases that require expensive procedures and hospitalizations. We host approximately 6 adoption events per year and have Petfinder and Adopt-A-Pet to thank for most of our adoptions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.3%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
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: 26.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 68.3% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.