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RUFF START RESCUE INC

EIN 27-2545988 PRINCETON, MN

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Revenue 2025
$3,472,707
Expenses 2025
$3,165,840

Program services were 83.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
1000
Street
12526 319TH AVE

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

RUFF START RESCUE IS DEDICATED TO SAVING THE LIVES OF ANIMALS IN NEED. WE IMPROVE ANIMAL WELFARE IN COMMUNITIES THROUGH ADOPTION, EDUCATION, AND PROVIDING RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE AND PETS.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $2,535,070 · Revenue $1,213,563

  • EDUCATION RSR BELIEVES EDUCATION IS A CRITICAL COMPONENT TO RESPONSIBLE GUARDIANSHIP OF COMPANION ANIMALS AND ENCOURAGES COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF ALL AGES TO BECOME RESPONSIBLE AND COMPASSIONATE PET OWNERS AND ANIMAL ADVOCATES. RSR DELIVERS AGE-APPROPRIATE INFORMATION ON TOPICS INCLUDING THE IMPORTANCE OF SPAY/NEUTER, ANIMAL SAFETY, PET CARE, RESCUE, AND ADOPTION. THROUGH CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES, PRESENTATIONS TO YOUTH AND ADULT ORGANIZATIONS, COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENTS, AND UNIQUE PROGRAMMING, RSR'S EDUCATION PROGRAM HAS REACHED OVER 12,475 TOTAL INDIVIDUALS SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 2013. IN 2025, 65 EDUCATION PROGRAMS WERE DELIVERED STATEWIDE REACHING 1,678 YOUTH AND 556 ADULTS.

    Expenses $5,051

  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT RSR IS COMMITTED TO FOSTERING RESIDENT ANIMAL WELFARE, REDUCING OWNER SURRENDERS, AND STRENGTHENING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PETS AND THEIR FAMILIES BY PROVIDING RESOURCES TO SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES IN NEED. IN 2025, RSR EXPANDED ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL RESOURCES THAT HELP FAMILIES NAVIGATE CHALLENGES, REDUCE BARRIERS TO PET CARE, AND KEEP PETS SAFE AT HOME. RSR CONTRIBUTED OVER 41,300 LBS OF PET FOOD AND SUPPLIES TO FAMILIES, LOCAL SHELTERS, FOOD BANKS, AND ANIMAL RESCUES. THROUGH THE OWNER SURRENDER PREVENTION PROGRAM, RSR AWARDED 3,900 IN MINI GRANTS PROVIDING SUPPORT TO FAMILIES FACING TEMPORARY FINANCIAL HARDSHIP. IN APRIL, RSR HELD ITS 12TH COMMUNITY WELLNESS CLINIC OFFERING LOW-COST VACCINATIONS AND PREVENTATIVE CARE FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS AND THEIR PETS SERVING 212 DOGS AND 72 CATS.

    Expenses $97,806 · Grants $97,806

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Azure Davis

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $139,641
    From this org
    $127,435
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,206
    Hours/week
    45

  • Valerie McCullough

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Michelle Coleman

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Samuel Lee

    TREASURER (F

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • John Check

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Andrew Willman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kristine Mitteness

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Amy Harnden

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Danielle Napravnik

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Jeremy Riddle

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $35,653
    From this org
    $35,653
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allyson Beffel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Morgan Graby

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Pam Harris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Kristen Bergstrom

    FORMER DIREC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris McCullough

    FORMER DIREC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jessica Mathias

    FORMER DIREC

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

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
    $3,472,707
    Expenses
    $3,165,840
    Contributions
    $2,184,560
    Grants paid
    $97,806
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,129,381
    Expenses
    $2,798,639
    Contributions
    $1,924,192
    Grants paid
    $92,544
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,463,441
    Expenses
    $2,218,506
    Contributions
    $1,362,856
    Grants paid
    $20,385
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,473,385
    Expenses
    $2,043,686
    Contributions
    $1,591,191
    Grants paid
    $20,867

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,286,954
    Expenses
    $2,117,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,627,782

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,813,419
    Expenses
    $1,603,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,605,118

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,383,707
    Expenses
    $1,214,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,251,812

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,061,374
    Expenses
    $819,231
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,059,025

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $615,683
    Expenses
    $433,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $443,138

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $485,831
    Expenses
    $331,724
    Assets (EOY)
    $259,432

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $295,899
    Expenses
    $225,730
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,692

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $153,646
    Expenses
    $137,999
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,921

  • 2011 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $67,517
    Expenses
    $54,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,183

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

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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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.