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RUTHLESS KINDNESS

EIN 84-2838142 SEBASTOPOL, CA

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Revenue 2025
$751,868
Expenses 2025
$387,069

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I70
Classification
1000
Street
10355 BURGUNDY WAY

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Ruthless Kindness provides multiple programs to remove barriers to safety for the most at-risk animals and people. This includes free mobile veterinary care and animal supplies/support for victims of domestic violence and others in crisis, free tele-support and human-service partner consultations, and free boarding and foster home placement for the pets of people in crisis. Additional programs involve investing in a future where less crisis support is needed. These programs include empathy education and the Human Animal Welfare Coalition.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Our mission is to address the epidemic of violence and preventable suffering in at-risk animals and people.

  • Ruthless Kindness advances its mission of keeping pets and people together during times of crisis by providing veterinary and logistical support to victims of domestic violence and other vulnerable individuals with animals. During the 2025 tax year, Ruthless Kindness received 1,205 calls from victim service partners and clients seeking assistance. In response to these needs, Ruthless Kindness provided 728 animals, including 466 dogs and 262 cats, with direct veterinary care at zero cost, delivering $242,060 in veterinary medicine value to individuals navigating dangerous or unstable circumstances. $58,853 in pet food and pet supply value was distributed to those requiring support during challenging times. Staff logged 3,621 miles in the RK mobile unit to meet clients in locations where they felt safe and to help them access care. For survivors whose only path to safety required entering a non-pet-friendly shelter, Ruthless Kindness provided 651 days and nights of animal boarding and foster care for their pets, eliminating a critical barrier that often prevents victims from leaving abusive situations. 33 free mobile veterinary clinics were held on-site at victim and human service agency locations serving at-risk individuals and their pets. 26 emergency mobile veterinary appointments provide urgent care for victims with pets needing to escape abuse with their animals. Partnerships with 30 victims and human service agencies were maintained, each actively referring clients with pets to Ruthless Kindness for support.

    Expenses $333,486

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sarah Reidenbach

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $136,286
    From this org
    $132,316
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,970
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kate Kuzminski

    Secretary/Treas

    Total calculated
    $40,800
    From this org
    $40,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Brandy Kuentzel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kim Henry

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Dobar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angela Struckmann

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kaushik Roy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $751,868
    Expenses
    $387,069
    Contributions
    $743,480
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $485,619
    Expenses
    $373,896
    Contributions
    $465,034
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $225,045
    Expenses
    $293,325
    Contributions
    $225,015
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $220,548
    Expenses
    $99,097
    Contributions
    $220,548
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Sarah Reidenbach
Mailing address
10355 Burgundy WaySebastopol CA 95472
Website
www.ruthlesskindness.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.