Sharis Shepherd Sanctuary

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923537719
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
N Las Vegas, NV, USA
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$49,970
Expenses
$77,663
Assets
$32,147
Liabilities
$7,588

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Andrew Gaul (President and Director of)

People named in this filing

  • Andrew Gaul (President and Director of)
  • Mary Schimmer-Gaul (Treasurer)
  • Brenda Kioro (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Sharis shepherd sanctuary was organized to assist homeless abandoned and surrendered German shepherds. We provide safe shelter from the Las Vegas heat cold medical attention enrichment and rehabilitation for eventual adoption into a loving home. The goal is to have less German Shepherds turned into the area shelter where they are more likely to be euthanized due to behavioral space or other challenges to sheltering and adoption.

What it reported doing in 2025

Sharis Shepherd Sanctuary focuses on the specific medical training and enrichment aspects for our fostered and sheltered dogs. Almost a third of our expenses is directed towards spay neuter and other dog specific medical issues. Since inception we have saved and adopted over 100 German Shepherds and we are comprised of a fully volunteer staff rotating 4 shifts daily to provide for our dogs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 95
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -55.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -75.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -47.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.