Safe Harbor Lab Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 743046240
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Golden, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3034647777
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $534,839
- Expenses
- $333,050
- Assets
- $2,211,247
- Liabilities
- $4,475
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACKY ECKARD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JACKY ECKARD (PRESIDENT)
- IRMINA STROUD (VICE PRESIDE)
- SUE NETZEL (SECRETARY)
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
To rescue, provide a high level of compassionate care and successfully rehome stray, abandoned or surrendered labrador retrievers giving priority to those in Colorado.
What it reported doing in 2025
The mission of safe harbor lab rescue is to rescue, provide a high level of compassionate care and successfully rehome stray, abandoned or surrendered labrador retrievers giving priority to those in Colorado. They also came from other states. We are an all volunteer, foster-based organization. Safe harbor's volunteers rescued and cared for approximately 182 labs in 2025 and over 4,700 labs since its founding. Many came from community members who needed to surrender their lab due to a challenging change in circumstances. Others came from crowded under-resourced shelters or rescue partners. Safe harbor, a rescue licensed by the state of Colorado, distinguishes itself by providing superior medical care, compassionate fostering, careful placement, and support of adopters.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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
STRONG - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.3%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $66.63 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.7%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.64; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.3% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $289K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.