Puffball Paradise Rabbit Sanctuary, Inc.

Legal name: Puffball Paradise Rabbit Sanctuary Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
920785301
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Sicklerville, NJ, United States
Phone
856-725-3087
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Other Services - Specialty Animals
Affiliation
Judaism

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$428,873
Expenses
$403,526
Assets
$26,542
Liabilities
$4,653

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BARBARA LOVELACE (PRESIDENT & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • BARBARA LOVELACE (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • NEIL CHAUHAN (DIRECTOR)
  • JENNIFER LOVELACE (DIRECTOR)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Give every bunny a life they deserve. Our mission is to lessen the burden on rabbit rescues by providing lifetime care to elderly, disadvantaged, and otherwise unadoptable rabbits from compromised conditions. Puffball Paradise is a small, family-run nonprofit rabbit sanctuary dedicated to helping bunnies in need. We partner with rescues to provide lifelong care for senior and medically challenged bunnies who may have experienced trauma or neglect. These bunnies often face difficulty finding permanent homes that can meet their specialized needs. Our mission is to offer these bunnies not only a place to live but to thrive. We provide a safe, loving environment where they are supported by the best medical care, thanks to our collaboration with Avian & Exotic Philly Vet Medical Surgical Clinic led by Dr. Susan J. Tyson. Our goal is to ensure that despite challenges they experience the...

What it reported doing in 2025

Puffball paradise provided care for over 60 rabbits in 2025. This included annual well visits and vaccination boosters for rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus 2. After the loss of one of our bunnies to pancreatitis, a condition with no definitive diagnostic testing or treatment, we are participating in an ongoing veterinary study regarding pancreatitis and its diagnosis and treatment in rabbits in the hope of improving the length and quality of life of rabbits with this condition.in furtherance of our mission to help care for bunnies with medical needs, we provided monthly dental procedures for six bunnies with various dental issues. We also provided ongoing medical treatment, including daily medications, hot packs, vet visits, syringe feedings, and diagnostic procedures, for (1) a bunny with chronic respiratory illness, (2) a bunny who suffers from seizures, (3) four buns who have chronic ear infections, (4) a bunny with megacolon (a genetic condition where the large bowel does not function properly), and (5) eight senior rabbits who experience pain from arthritis and pododermatitis.in fulfilling our mission to always act in the best interest of the rabbits in our care, we peacefully euthanized a bunny with a tracheal stent who had difficulty breathing after developing granulomas around the distal stent three years after placement. We also sought emergency care for bunnies as needed for such conditions as gi stasis.we participated in northeast bunfest in 2025 for networking, educating, and fundraising. We also continued to grow our social media presence, reaching 238 followers on instagram and 216 followers on facebook.

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.
  • 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 98.2%; 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 60.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th 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: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $396K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.