Magical Creatures Sanctuary
Legal name: Magical Creatures of Hamakua - Animal Rescue and Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824260185
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Laupahoehoe, HI, USA
- Phone
- 808-758-7500
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $155,308
- Expenses
- $115,104
- Assets
- $117,840
- Liabilities
- $29,172
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Helena Lundblad (Director and Co-Executive Director)
- Jil Vanderhoef (Co-Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Helena Lundblad (Director and Co-Executive Director)
- Jil Vanderhoef (Co-Executive Director)
- Danielle Spitz (Chair (as of November 2025, previously Vice Chair))
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 rescue and provide lifelong refuge for farmed animals on Hawaiʻi Island, while creating a global classroom for compassion — fostering meaningful connections between people and animals to inspire conscious choices and kinder ways of living.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program 1: Sanctuary & Animal Care: Magical Creatures Sanctuary provides lifelong sanctuary, individualized care, and rehabilitation for rescued farmed animals in need. In 2025, the organization cared for more than 100 resident animals, including goats, sheep, pigs, cows, chickens, and other farmed animals, many of whom are elderly, disabled, orphaned, or survivors of neglect, abandonment, injury, or medical hardship. The sanctuary provided daily feeding, safe housing, enrichment, hoof care, medication, veterinary treatment, and specialized support as needed. A significant part of the sanctuary's work involves animals with complex medical or mobility needs, including residents who require prosthetics, braces, wheelchairs, wound care, chronic-condition management, or long-term rehabilitation. The sanctuary also responded to community inquiries from individuals seeking guidance and support for farmed animal care, helping fill a gap in services for non-companion animals in Hawaii. The sanctuary remains the heart of the organization, and its education and outreach programs are rooted in the care and stories of its residents.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.9%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
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: 25.9%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 60.9% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.