United Doberman Rescue and Canine Castaways of Minnesota
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201637699
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Elk River, MN, USA
- Phone
- 7633558292
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,720
- Expenses
- $77,851
- Assets
- $302,002
- Liabilities
- $389
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY RUUD (President)
People named in this filing
- MARY RUUD (President)
- DEBRA SANER (Treasurer)
- MIKE FITZGERALD (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
To save all homeless doberman, and animals in need, from death and abandonment, and provide breed education to the public. We believe that the need to resue exists not only on a local basis but more broadly across the united states and the world. Our goal is to help all dobermans, or those animals in desperate need locally in Minnesota and the 5 state area, but also in extended u.s. Geographies where local groups may not be able to help. We actively work with other rescues across the u.s. And world to help save the doberman along with other breeds of canines, when other rescues are unable to help.
What it reported doing in 2025
Foster home based dog rescue. All rescued dogs are fully vetted, vaccinated, spayed or neutered, micro-chipped, heart worm negative, and on flea and heartworm
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.6%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 48.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.88; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 49.6% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.