Sunny Bear Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993682869
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Partlow, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5404290658
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal-Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,138
- Expenses
- $57,655
- Assets
- $24,596
- Liabilities
- $14,328
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Matthew Sprouse (Treasurer)
- Kai James-Davis (Secretary)
- Mischa Moore-Davis (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
Animal rescue, pet food pantry, microchipping
What it reported doing in 2025
Vaccination Program Sunny Bear Rescue provides free vaccination assistance to help protect community pets from preventable illness and to support families who may not otherwise be able to afford basic preventative care. Through this program, Sunny Bear Rescue offers core vaccines for community dogs and cats when supplies and resources are available. No payment is required for service. Donations are accepted only if families are able and choose to give, but families are not asked to pay in order to receive help. This program supports Sunny Bear Rescues mission by helping pets stay healthy, keeping families together, and reducing the spread of preventable disease in the community. Many families deeply love their pets but may face financial hardship, transportation challenges, rising costs, or unexpected emergencies that make routine care difficult. By removing the cost barrier for basic vaccines, Sunny Bear Rescue helps more pets receive protection before illness occurs. During the year, Sunny Bear Rescue provided vaccination assistance through community outreach, scheduled opportunities, and individual requests from families in need. The program benefited local pet owners, families facing hardship, and the animals themselves by improving access to basic preventative care. Sunny Bear Rescue also used these opportunities to educate families about the importance of keeping pets current on vaccines and continuing regular veterinary care whenever possible. The Vaccination Program is especially important because preventable illness can quickly become expensive, dangerous, and devastating for families and pets. By helping animals receive basic vaccines, Sunny Bear Rescue helps reduce avoidable suffering, supports public and animal health, and helps prevent situations where families may feel forced to surrender a pet due to medical costs. This program allows Sunny Bear Rescue to serve not only animals in its direct care, but also owned pets throughout the surrounding community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.6%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 14
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.3%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.6% of revenue deployed · 13.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.