American Goat Federation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271912494
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2021
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2018
Location
San Angelo, TX, USA
Phone
3257164500
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Husbandry

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$165,797
Expenses
$90,397
Assets
$121,753
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Karen Kopf (Director, President)
  • Randy Dusek (Director, Vice President)
  • Anita Teel Dahnke (Executive Director)
  • Kathryn Carruth (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Sam Abney (Founding Member)
  • Tom Boyer (Founding Member and Director)
  • Bob Bartholomew (Director)

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 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The American Goat Federation promotes and facilitates the development of all segments of the goat industry including diary, meat and fiber by encouraging sound public policy and education.

What it reported doing in 2021

AGF has involved in four programs receiving assistance from USDA Aphis. Safe Handling tests bulk handlers which are purchased or build and used in two auction barns that handle large volumes of sheep and goats to determine effectiveness and ease of use. Secure Goat will provide an outline and tools for goat producers to voluntarily prepare before an outbreak occurs as well as how to manage, quarantine, and provide logistic procedures in event of actual outbreak. RFID allows for continued evaluation of suitable RFID tags for use in goats in accordance with Animal Disease Traceability. Tabs are tested for ease of application, retention and ease of wand readers. Scrapie provides subgrants to associations and educates producers and future ag industry particpants about Scrapie, Qfever, and about program requirements

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 72
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 40.7%; rating input score 41
  • Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 75

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 45.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -82.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 32.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 63.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 40.7% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $67K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2019 to 2021
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.