Peace of Mind Dog Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271154816
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Pacific Grove, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8317189122
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,368,177
- Expenses
- $2,540,361
- Assets
- $5,993,284
- Liabilities
- $96,114
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cathy Heape (President)
- Kim Batholomay (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Dr Erin Trannel (Medical Dir.): $185,087 total reported compensation
- Carie Broeckett (Executive Dir.): $133,553 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Peace of Mind Dog Rescue is a resource and advocate for senior dogs and senior people on the Central Coast. We find homes for dogs whose guardians can no longer care for them and for senior dogs in shelters.
What it reported doing in 2024
Adoption Program: POMDR takes into our care dogs from animal shelters and dogs from guardians unable to care for them. Each dog gets an exam with a veterinarian including a senior blood panel, xrays and other diagnostic procedures as needed, spay/neuter and any other treatment or surgeries as needed, vaccinations and microchip. The dog is then placed in a volunteer foster home, put on our website and advertised as adoptable. The dog goes to adoption events in the community until he/she is adopted to a permanent family. We then follow up several times per year to keep track of how the dog is doing in his/her new home. POMDR has rescued 4,299 dogs in need since from October 2009 through December 31 2024. We have approximately 100 dogs in foster care at any given time.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.36; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $185K · 7 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $155K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.