15-10 Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872380864
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Charleston, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3045500475
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,543,147
- Expenses
- $2,582,225
- Assets
- $4,054,670
- Liabilities
- $155,303
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATT NELSON (PRESIDENT)
- NICOLE LONGEVIN-BURROUGHS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MATT NELSON (PRESIDENT): $178,075 total reported compensation
- BRIAN CANTERBURY (TREASURER): $178,075 total reported compensation
- JOHN RICCI (SECRETARY): $178,075 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the 15/10 foundation is to increase access to medical care and behavioral support for the dogs who need us most.tagline "helping the dogs who need us most"vision "a world where every dog is given the opportunity to be healthy and thrive with the people who love them."
What it reported doing in 2025
Help alleviate overcrowding in animal shelters by providing financial assistance for behavioral or veterinary services to increase the adoptability of pets that are less likely to be adopted as a result of their behavioral conditions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.6%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $72.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 96%; rating input score 96; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.2%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.57; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 59% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 57.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 60.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 52.6% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $178K · 5 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.