Rabbit Rescue
Legal name: Rabbit Rescue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330742169
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Paramount, CA, USA
- Phone
- 562.862.8844
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal-Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $211,078
- Expenses
- $187,581
- Assets
- $122,731
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Natalie Mathis (President)
- Samuel Mathis (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Susie Mills (Treasurer)
- Ruth Watson (Secretary)
- Natalie Mathis (President)
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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rabbit Rescue, Inc. was established in 1995. Based in Paramount, Calif., we are a non-profit 501c (3) no-kill shelter staffed and run entirely by volunteers. We offer service points for school clubs and provide the perfect environment to nurture a sense of community, responsibility and compassion in people of all ages and walks of life. Working with animals can be quite rewarding, uplifting, and relaxing. (See our "Volunteer" page for more info.) Our goals include the rescue, rehabilitation and placement of abandoned rabbits, plus public education regarding proper rabbit care and the importance of spay/neuter in battling the escalating overpopulation problem. We average a minimum of 15 to 20.
What it reported doing in 2020
Provide education and information to community concerning animal rights. The corporation funcitons as a community resource to provide information to the public
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $188K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.