San Diego House Rabbit Society
Legal name: San Diego Companion Rabbit Society Inc Dba San Diego House Rabbit Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 651262427
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8585652869
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
- Affiliation
- Judaism
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $803,435
- Expenses
- $688,701
- Assets
- $1,153,887
- Liabilities
- $39,594
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN GURNECK (President)
People named in this filing
- JAIME LEE (Treasurer)
- ANDREW KAPERONIS (Director)
- CHRISTIAN M ZMASEK (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
Our Mission is to rescue abandoned domestic rabbits within our community and find them new homes, support our local shelters in the care of their rabbits, and educate the community on the proper and responsible care of domestic rabbit companions. Welcome to San Diego's first rabbit-only adoption center! This state-of-the-art shelter for rabbits showcases and cares for adoptable rabbits in a home-like setting to demonstrate proper housing and care for domestic rabbit companions. The Adoption Center houses its adoptable rabbits in roomy exercise pens (x-pens) with food and water bowls, enrichment toys, a hidey house, a large litter box filled with hay, and more. Rabbits get regular run time in roomy play areas and volunteers give them lots of love and attention. There are many ways to help SDHRS support our mission — adopt, become a monthly supporter or volunteer! It costs SDHRS $1 a...
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides essential supplies, educational books, and other resources to rabbit adopters and rabbit owners to ensure the proper care and maintenance of their pets. In addition, the organization offers access to online educational materials to promote responsible rabbit ownership, enhance animal welfare, and support adopters in providing lifelong, healthy homes for their rabbits.
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.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th 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: 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: 14.3%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $574K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.