Romania Animal Rescue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721546354
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Livermore, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9256675181
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $389,541
- Expenses
- $399,493
- Assets
- $601,684
- Liabilities
- $4,176
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NANCY JANES (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NANCY JANES (PRESIDENT)
- INGRID ZOHAR (VICE PRESIDE)
- RORY JANES (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organization mission is to establish animal welfare through spay/neuter, veterinary care and treatments for rescuers and impoverished owners' animals, funding training for veterinarians to learn better surgical skills, provide food and help for shelter animals, and coordinate welfare and adoption of animals into good homes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Spay or neuter for 13,006 dogs and cats in 2025, with a grand total of 148,288 since inception. These are held at center of hope hospital (near bucharest), at family vet in craiova, and in mobile campaigns throughout romania. Veterinary treatments under our homeless animals hospital program (not including spays/neuters) for over 4000 dogs and cats, including emergencies, broken limbs, cancer, extreme trauma from car accidents, treatment for tick borne diseases and parvovirus, blood transfusions, saving dogs who have been attacked and sustained massive injuries in shelters or on the streets, providing internal and external parasite treatments, vaccines, etc. This program helps homeless animals as well as those of impoverished guardians and rescuers. Providing scholarships for 6 vets to attend the veterinary training camp at center of hope hospital to teach more vets on highly skilled surgical techniques. Provide food for two shelters. Found homes for our rescued patients in the USA, uk and holland. Provided field trips and educational seminars at center of hope hospital. Trained over 500 veterinarians on highly skilled sterilization techniques throughout the years via the veterinary training camp held at center of hope hospital romania. Education with booths at fairs and community events, community outreach with vet patrol program. Provide supplies: dog crates, surgical instruments, sterile sheets, blankets, clippers and blades, sterile gloves, needles and syringes, anti- parasite medication, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 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: -2.6%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $390K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.