Sweet Dreams Senior Pet Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931888752
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Seguin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4129134724
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,383
- Expenses
- $86,434
- Assets
- $60,879
- 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
- CAROLE HARRISON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- STEPHANIE DRENNING (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CAROLE HARRISON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CATE SITTON (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS)
- CATHY FENNEL (BOARD MEMBER)
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
The mission of sweet dreams senior pet sanctuary is to support elderly individuals who can no longer care for their senior pets by providing a safe and loving home for their cherished companions. The sanctuary offers two primary programs to ensure these cherished companions continue to receive love and care: 1) the sanctuary pets program provides a lifelong, loving home for senior pets whose elderly owners are unable to continue their care due to life transitions such as moving into assisted living facilities. These pets receive comprehensive care, including proper nutrition, grooming, exercise, socialization, pain management, and dignified end-of-life care. The sanctuary also facilitates visitations between the pets and their original owners in assisted living or nursing facilities. 2) the guardian angel program allows community members to provide permanent foster homes for senior pets while sdsps retains responsibility for the pets' medical care for the remainder of their lives.
What it reported doing in 2025
At the outset of 2025, the sweet dreams senior pet sanctuary (sdsps) had 16 senior dogs and 4 senior cats in its care. Over the course of the year, the sanctuary received an additional 7 senior dogs, resulting in a total of 23 senior dogs and 4 senior cats enrolled in our program throughout the year. We also had 3 deaths, so we ended the year with 20 senior dogs and 4 senior cats. These animals were surrendered primarily due to changes in their elderly owners' circumstances, particularly related to declining health, transitions to assisted living facilities and nursing homes, or other housing situations where pet ownership was no longer feasible. Six elderly individuals were directly supported in 2025 by the mission of sweet dreams senior pet sanctuary during periods of significant life change, such as transitioning into assisted living or experiencing declining health. Through the structured surrender process, these individuals were able to place their senior pets into the sanctuary's care, ensuring that their companions would continue to receive consistent, high-quality care in a safe and nurturing environment. This service not only provided peace of mind to the individuals but also aligned with the organization's goal of preventing the abandonment or shelter placement of aging pets. In addition to serving elderly seniors who are no longer able to care for their senior pets, sdsps has a far greater impact. Sdsps reduces the burden on the families of those seniors who are faced with rehoming the pets, the shelters that might otherwise have to house the pets, and the amazing number of hardworking rescue volunteers who must make difficult decisions daily because of an overwhelming number of surrendered animals.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 44% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.8% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 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 48/100.