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MARLEYS MUTTS DOG RESCUE

EIN 30-0636031 TEHACHAPI, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,627,810
Expenses 2024
$1,796,993

Program services were 74.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
4000
Street
1121 W VALLEY BLVD SUITE I 140

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 · 2024

Mission

MAKING A PAWSITIVE AND LASTING IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES BY REHABILITATING SOULS AND CREATING SECOND CHANCES USING THE POWER OF THE HUMAN/CANINE BOND.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO HELP FIND PERMANENT HOMES FOR STRAY, ABANDONED, OR OTHERWISE HOMELESS DOGS. EVERY DOG THAT COMES TO THE DOG RESCUE IS SPAYED OR NEUTERED AND GIVEN THEIR NECESSARY VACCINATIONS. THE DOGS ARE NOT KEPT IN KENNELS OR CAGES (THEY ARE TREATED LIKE FAMILY) AND COEXIST WITH THE OTHER DOGS ON THE PROPERTY. DOGS ARE LEASH TRAINED, HOUSEBROKEN, TAUGHT TO RIDE IN A VEHICLE AND HOW TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES AROUND HUMANS AND OTHER DOGS. WE ALSO REHABILITATE SEVERELY INJURED AND SICK ANIMALS.

  • MIRACLE MUTTS THERAPY DOG PROGRAM IS A COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION PROGRAM. UTILIZING ALL BREEDS, THERAPY DOGS ARE TRAINED TO PROVIDE AFFECTION, COMFORT AND SUPPORT TO PEOPLE IN HOSPITALS, LIBRARIES, UNIVERSITIES, RETIREMENT HOMES, HOMELESS SHELTERS, UNDERSERVED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, HOSPICE OR HIGHT-STRESS AREAS, SERVING NEARLY 500 PEOPLE. THIS PROGRAM IS POWERED BY HUMAN VOLUNTEERS AND THEIR CERTIFIED THERAPY DOGS, MANY OF WHICH WERE MARLEY'S MUTTS RESCUES.

    Expenses $1,056,800 · Revenue $13,438

  • PAWSITIVE CHANGE PRISON PROGRAM SERVED 2 CALIFORNIA STATE PRISONS. 35 DOGS WERE PAIRED WITH 59 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS (STUDENT TRAINERS) USING DOG PSYCHOLOGY AND BASIC DOG OBEDIENCE TRAINING. THE CANINE/HUMAN BONDGRADUATED WITH A PAWSITIVE CHANGE CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION THAT PREPARED DOGS FOR ADOPTION WHILE PREPARING THE INCARCERATED TO BE EQUIPPED TO ENTER THE WORKFORCE UPON RELEASE. NO REPORTS OF RECIDIVISM.

    Expenses $225,578

  • MUTT MOVERS: DEDICATED TO MAKE AN IMPACT ON THE OVERCROWDING CRISIS IN KERN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERS, MARLEY'S MUTTS IS ON A MISSION TO RESCUE, REHABILITATE, AND REHOME DOGS IN NEED. A PROGRAM CRITICAL TO SAVING DOGS AND TAKING THE BURDEN OFF OUR SHELTER PARTNERS IS OUR MUTT MOVERS PROGRAM. THIS RESCUE BY RELOCATION PROGRAM ALLOWS US TO TRANSPORT UP TO 500 DOGS PER YEAR TO AREAS WHERE THE DEMAND FOR ADOPTABLE DOGS IS HIGH.

    Expenses $64,233

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Ben Lebeau

    ACTING SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeff Goldstein

    VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathy Johnson

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Jones

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rachel Rubenstein

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Guy Ruhland

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Zach Skow

    FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF PR

    Total calculated
    $128,200
    From this org
    $128,200
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Melissa Brunson

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $100,000
    From this org
    $100,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,627,810
    Expenses
    $1,796,993
    Contributions
    $1,632,395
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,579,816
    Expenses
    $1,950,702
    Contributions
    $1,547,868
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,466,378
    Expenses
    $2,020,776
    Contributions
    $1,439,752
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,018,398
    Expenses
    $1,661,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,941,617

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,509,278
    Expenses
    $1,343,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,599,431

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,423,851
    Expenses
    $1,591,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,378,777

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,707,634
    Expenses
    $1,239,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,365,611

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,157,146
    Expenses
    $1,091,278
    Assets (EOY)
    $857,611

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $797,653
    Expenses
    $710,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $550,191

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $749,738
    Expenses
    $631,572
    Assets (EOY)
    $490,841

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $674,198
    Expenses
    $468,980
    Assets (EOY)
    $360,748

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $242,745
    Expenses
    $203,681
    Assets (EOY)
    $96,778

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $161,484
    Expenses
    $137,542
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,789

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • THE CUDDLY GROUP INC.

    $54,785 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $53,272 to charity

  • THE CUDDLY GROUP INC.

    $19,316 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $18,469 to charity

  • THE CUDDLY GROUP INC.

    $13,718 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $13,128 to charity

  • THE CUDDLY GROUP INC.

    $17,006 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $16,347 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.