The Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters, Inc.
Legal name: Volunteer Auxiliary for Animal Shelters Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223017939
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Jackson, NJ, United States
- Phone
- 732-341-9959
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,590
- Expenses
- $102,490
- Assets
- $236,205
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Crystal Raupp (President)
- Dawn Dorko (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Crystal Raupp (President)
- Rondi Shelhamer (Treasurer)
- Patricia Robertson (Secretary)
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 Volunteer Auxiliary’s mission is to increase the adoption rate and decrease the euthanasia rate of shelter animals in Ocean County, NJ and beyond. With the number of homeless pets far exceeding the amount of kennel space available, fostering has become critical to our mission. Fostering helps relieve overcrowding and reduces an animal’s stress by providing a temporary supportive environment while waiting for their forever home. The Volunteer Auxiliary is always looking to add to our list of trusted fosters, who take on this extraordinary role. If you're interested in joining us and becoming a foster parent to a shelter pet in need, click either the Dog or Cat tab above. After completion of the application, you will be added to the Vol Aux foster's email list and will be notified of pets in need of a foster home. If you can meet their i.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide medical services and services needed to facilitate adoption.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 12.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.