Three Stooges Rescue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922366280
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA
- Phone
- 7728775890
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,506
- Expenses
- $87,703
- Assets
- $72,506
- Liabilities
- $87,703
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Natasha Backovich (President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Cory Backovich (Director)
- Natasha Backovich (President and Director)
- Erick Seda (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
Three Stooges Rescue Inc. is a nonprofit organization committed to saving the lives of abandoned, neglected, and at-risk dogs, particularly large breeds often overlooked in shelters. The organization provides medical care, rehabilitation, foster and boarding support, and responsible adoption services to ensure long-term success. Through education, outreach, and advocacy, the rescue works to reduce euthanasia and promote responsible pet ownership within the community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program 1: Rescue, Rehabilitation and Veterinary Care - Three Stooges Rescue Inc. rescues abandoned, neglected, and at-risk dogs from shelters, owner surrenders, and emergency situations, with a focus on large breeds. The organization provides comprehensive veterinary care including vaccinations, spay/neuter, heartworm treatment, diagnostics, and emergency surgeries. Dogs receive behavioral assessment and rehabilitation as needed to prepare them for safe placement. This program directly reduces euthanasia rates and improves quality of life for vulnerable animals. Those benefited: animals rescued and rehabilitated; adopters and community members who receive safe, vetted companion animals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -21%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.21; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.