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Filing year 2024

THE HAPPY DOG PROJECT

Santa Monica, California·EIN 81-3361499·NTEE D20 · Animal-Related·3
Total revenue
$2.5M
Total assets
$6.3M
Total expenses
$154k
Reported officers
3
Mission

OUR PURPOSE IS TO FIND PERMANENT, SAFE AND HAPPY HOMES FOR AS MANY HOMELESS ANIMALS AS POSSIBLE. WE OPERATE AS A RESCUE, WELLNESS AND EDUCATION CENTER TO IMPROVE NOT JUST THE LIVES OF ANIMALS RESCUED, BUT ALSO THE INDIVIDUALS WITH WHOM THE ANIMALS ARE PLACED. OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO FOCUS ON THE HUMAN WELLNESS ASPECT OF ANIMAL RESCUE OPERATIONS.

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2024

Director
board member
$95k
$102k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 2 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Animal-Related

Held steady
from 2023

From $95k in 2023 to $95k in 2024.

$95k
2023
$95k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 3% in real terms$105k to $102k

Estimated with Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Sector benchmark

What Animal-Related executives earn in California

Comparable animal-related organizations in California pay their highest-earning executive a median of $60,000.

25th percentile
$26k
Median
$60,000
75th percentile
$125k
90th percentile
$177k

These are animal-related sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 117 organizations across 117 filings (2021 – 2023).

See full Animal-Related pay data for California
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