Resilient Hearts Animal Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841797829
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063959372
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $596,590
- Expenses
- $560,815
- Assets
- $159,947
- Liabilities
- $10,327
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIN HANDLEY (PRESIDENT)
- SHAINA WARD SIEGEL (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL EZZO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL EZZO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $67,840 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to save animals from high kill shelters and unite them with their forever families in the Pacific Northwest. Thank you for being part of our mission! If you’re interested in fostering, you’re in the right place. What does fostering Mean with Us? Fostering is the heart of our rescue. As a foster-based organization, we rely on our community to open their homes so we can keep saving animals from overcrowded shelters. Mike has been working with animals for 15 years, starting on a dairy farm in upstate New York, and transitioning to working with dogs when moving to Seattle in 2011. In 2014, Mike adopted their rescue pup, Pickle, and life became all about dog care. They fell in love with rehabilitating and training rescue dogs from working at an animal shelter, and wants to bring that experience to help other families in the PNW. Our Inspiration These are the faces honored...
What it reported doing in 2025
The primary function of rhas is to save animals from at risk situations and unite them with their forever families in the pacific northwest. We rescue animals primarily from overflowing shelters in Washington and houston, tx, lessening the burden on our partner rescues and reducing the rate of euthanasia in these areas. We united 110 dogs and 60 cats with their forever families in 2022. All of our animals are safely sheltered either at our facility or with a foster family. All of our animals are spayed or neutered before adoption.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.3%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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: 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: Pass
- 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: 6%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 77.3% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $461K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.