Northern California Sled Dog Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680459331
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Walnut Creek, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8004715822
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $330,326
- Expenses
- $464,909
- Assets
- $148,959
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Angelique Miller (President)
People named in this filing
- Angelique Miller (President)
- Gail de Rita (Director)
- Maria Dhindsa (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northern California Sled Dog Rescue (NORSLED) is an all volunteer non-profit group dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, fostering and finding new homes for unwanted, abused and abandoned siberian huskies, alaskan malamutes, samoyeds and northern breed mixes in many Northern California counties including: Alameda, Butte, Contra Costa, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Sacramento, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba. The territory covered by NORSLED is approximately 70,702 square miles with a population of about 12,839,947.
What it reported doing in 2024
Since inception, Northern California Sled Dog Rescue has helped find homes for over 4500 dogs. Northern California Sled Dog Rescue has worked with local shelters to help find homes for an additional 500+ dogs adopted directly from shelters. Many of the dogs we have found homes for were over 3 years old, and therefore harder to place. We have also rescued many dogs with medical needs. In addition to our rescue & adoption program, we have helped countless owners to either keep their dogs or re-home them when necessary. During the year ended December 31, 2024 Northern California Sled Dog Rescue adopted 93 dogs. We work with shelters, volunteers and other rescue groups throughout Northern California from San Francisco to Nevada to Yuba and further north to assist with rescue efforts for Nordic and other breeds. We coordinate efforts with more than 10 other rescue groups including SHRR, BASH, ARF, Samoyed Rescue, Pac Lyfe Rescue and German Shepherd Rescue. We host adoption fairs in at least 3 counties and attend events in even more. We have participated with ARF, Oakland SPCA, Berkeley Humane Society and others in adoption events and awareness. Northern California Sled Dog Rescue conducts programs at local schools educating students about dogs, sled dogs in particular, and the Iditarod.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -40.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $455K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.