Tails of Hope Dog Rescue
Legal name: Tails of Hope Dog Rescue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272503580
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Walls, MS, USA
- Phone
- 901-779-6280
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $249,879
- Expenses
- $252,677
- Assets
- $13,311
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VIRGINIA HARPER (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT L HARPER (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- VIRGINIA HARPER (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT L HARPER (VICE-PRESIDENT)
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
Tails of Hope Dog Rescue’s mission is to rescue, socialize, rehabilitate & rehome shelter dogs, with a focus on medical cases and those dogs/puppies with the most need. Tails of Hope Dog Rescue (THDR) is a non-profit 501(c)(3), non-specific breed rescue made up of dedicated dog lovers. We are a "foster home-based rescue." We have a network of families and individuals who provide foster care in their homes for rescue dogs and puppies until they can be adopted into loving, responsible homes. We focus on medical cases and those dogs or puppies with the most need. Our goal is to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome abused, abandoned, surrendered, neglected, and unwanted dogs and puppies from local shelters. We pull from many local kill shelters in and around Memphis, TN. Our adoptable pets are up-to-date on vaccinations, spayed/neutered, dewormed, have a negative h.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tails of hope dog rescue provided rescue, medical, foster and/or permanent placement for 91 canines.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 12
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -1.1%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $253K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.