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GUARDIANS OF FLORIDA ANIMAL RESCUE INC

EIN 87-0921342 FORT MYERS, FL

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Revenue 2025
$1,033,151
Expenses 2025
$1,072,855

Program services were 97.6% 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
13931 SOPHOMORE LN

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

GUARDIANS OF FLORIDA ANIMAL RESCUE INC was founded by a group of professional women on 4/27/21 who are passionate about making a difference in the lives of animals who have no voice, no hope, and no GUARDIAN. See Schedule O for additional information.

  • In 2025, our fourth full year of operations, we rescued 895 neglected, abused and/or unwanted animals from an uncertain and likely tragic fate and found homes for 841 animals to give them their much-deserved second chance at true happiness. During this period, we took on many severe medical cases where animals had no chance at any quality of life, or even a life at all, without a rescue determined to find a way to pay for surgeries, hospitalization stays, and rehabilitation. We continue to establish and grow relationships with local veterinarians and spay/neuter clinics, significantly grew our volunteer and donor base and with the addition of instore cat habitats in Petco and PetSupermarker, we expanded our cat rescue and adoption program. Our social media presence on Facebook and Instagram continues to grow and allows us to highlight our mission, our challenges, our accomplishments and most importantly, our animals.

    Expenses $1,047,126 · Revenue $339,222

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.

  • Sherri-Lee Mercuri

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Diana Thies

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Dana Bursch

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Tina Johnson

    Co-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Kim Howard

    Co-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

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
    $1,033,151
    Expenses
    $1,072,855
    Contributions
    $681,368
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,394,216
    Expenses
    $781,691
    Contributions
    $1,041,319
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $591,024
    Expenses
    $592,513
    Contributions
    $371,371
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $393,063
    Expenses
    $363,467
    Contributions
    $286,865
    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
Sherri-Lee Mercuri
Mailing address
10012 Gulf Center Drive STE 5122Fort Myers FL 33913
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 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 11 November 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.