Wags Dog Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874053448
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Rockford, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6462336261
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,063
- Expenses
- $48,767
- Assets
- $272,526
- Liabilities
- $136,070
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH VANDER WAL (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- SARAH VANDER WAL (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- ANNE VANDER WAL (SECRETARY & 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide temporary shelter for stray dogs, nutrition for stray dogs, re-homing services for stray dogs
What it reported doing in 2024
Wags dog rescue provides temporary shelter, nutrition, and re-homing services for stray dogs
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.9%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 11.1%; rating input score 11
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: -384.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.59; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -62% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.9% of revenue deployed · 11.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.