Vindicated Pit Bull Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471526596
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7036097289
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,578
- Expenses
- $77,677
- Assets
- $19,692
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY OSTERMAN (PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA MUELLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AMY OSTERMAN (PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA MUELLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JESSICA SMOZYNSKI (TREASURER)
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 restore the reputation of the misunderstood pit bull breed through aiding in adoption of pit bull type dogs to responsible individuals and to help promote responsible breed ownership through owner and public education.
What it reported doing in 2025
To adopt and foster out pit bull dogs to loving families. Dogs are spayed, neutered, microchipped & vaccinated.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.