Sonoma Chicks Rescue and Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921684586
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Sonoma, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4153074410
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,448
- Expenses
- $65,990
- Assets
- $32,127
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tania Soderman (Founder and Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Tania Soderman (Founder and Executive Director)
- Steve Backers (Director and Board Chair)
- Dawn Hahn (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
Our mission is to rescue and provide animals with a sanctuary where they can retire and live out their life in a loving and safe environment. We take in smaller farm animals that have been abused, saved from the dining table, or "lost their value to the passage of time" - offering them a community where healing is done with the help of their fellow residents, veterinarians and our volunteers and patrons.
What it reported doing in 2025
Animal feed, bedding, and supplies - We provide the everyday loving care including food, water, clean bedding, toys and supplies for mental stimulation and emotional support to previously abused, abandoned, and unwanted small farm animals such as pigs, goats, ducks, bunnies, and geese to name a few.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.7%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 92.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $61K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.