Ziggys Little Paws Rescue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 932894541
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Escondido, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6199177250
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $30,585
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DALE R GILLUM (President & CEO)
- SYLVIA M ACUNA (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DALE R GILLUM (President & CEO)
- SYLVIA M ACUNA (Vice President)
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 rescue dogs at risk in [San Diego / Southern California] shelters and from situations of neglect or abandonment, providing them with essential medical care, rehabilitation, and placing them into loving, permanent homes.
What it reported doing in 2025
Saving Animals: Taking in animals that are abandoned, neglected, abused, stray, or at imminent risk of euthanasia in shelters. This is the most direct way to prevent immediate cruelty or suffering.Intake Protocols: Having clear processes for bringing animals into care safely and legally.Providing Essential Care & Rehabilitation: Shelter & Housing: Providing safe, clean, and appropriate temporary housing (either in a facility or foster homes).Veterinary Care: Offering necessary medical treatment, vaccinations, spaying/neutering, and addressing injuries or illnesses. This prevents suffering due to medical neglect.Nutrition & Husbandry: Ensuring animals receive adequate food, water, grooming, and exercise.Behavioral Support: Working to socialize animals and address behavioral issues resulting from past trauma or neglect, making them more suitable for adoption and preventing future abandonment.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.