Academy for the Advancement of Animal Chiropractic Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823362765
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Morton, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3093218412
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,157
- Expenses
- $102,926
- Assets
- $10,797
- Liabilities
- $46,614
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RACHEL WENDT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KAREN HANNAH ELLIS (PRESIDENT)
- JOSHUA KNUTSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RACHEL WENDT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KAREN HANNAH ELLIS (PRESIDENT)
- JOSHUA KNUTSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide quality continuing education for licensed and certified chiropractors and veterinarians for the practice of animal chiropractic and to connect licensed and certified chiropractors and veterinarians with a common focus to advance animal chiropractic.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, the organization provided educational resources, hosted training programs and seminars, facilitated professional networking opportunities, and supported the advancement of animal chiropractic awareness and standards within the profession. These activities contributed to improved practitioner competency, expanded access to animal chiropractic services, and enhanced animal wellness outcomes through conservative, non-invasive care approaches. Our organization provided education for 152 doctors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.9%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 2
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -58%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.32; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.9% of revenue deployed · 2.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.