Make a Stand Bully Rescue

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
874396719
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Bryan, TX, USA
Phone
9725670369
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$239,065
Expenses
$241,753
Assets
$10,821
Liabilities
$366

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • STEPHANIE MENDIOLA (EXECUTIVE DI): $8,389 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Make a stand bully rescue seeks to end canine neglect through comprehensive foster and adoption programming and advocacy efforts.

What it reported doing in 2025

Foster program: saving bully breeds begins with our foster families and their vital role in rehabilitation and care make a stand bully rescue (masbr) is a Texas based organization specializing in pit bull and bully- breed adoptions. As a no-kill rescue, our program strives to place healthy, social pit bulls and bully breeds in adoptive forever homes. But before we can place our pit bulls and bully breeds in adoptive homes, they reside with trained, volunteer k9 foster custodians. K9 foster custodians provide love, training, and care to our programs rescued pit bulls. We believe that our volunteer k9 foster custodians are our front line in saving lives. We work with our foster families on finding the right foster fit for each home. Then, we provide all necessary supplies. This includes funding all veterinary care and ensuring each dog has what he/she needs to thrive, while we carefully screen for the right adoptive home. Adoption program: make a stand bully rescue (masbr) is a Texas based organization specializing in pit bull and bully-breed adoptions. We are a no-kill animal rescue our program strives to place healthy, social pit bulls and bully breeds in adoptive forever homes. When you adopt a dog from masbr, you and your family will join our rescue network masbr offers lifelong support, resources, and connections that allow your pit bull adoption to succeed

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 44% for direct work, and 56% for grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 98%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: $432.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -39.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 98% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $233K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $8K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.