American Watchdogs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813432164
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Paris, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2178082527
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,194
- Expenses
- $132,086
- Assets
- $192,936
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIRK ALLEN (PRESIDENT AND TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- KIRK ALLEN (PRESIDENT AND TREASURER)
- JOHN KRAFT (SECRETARY)
- SID JUSTICE (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promoting goverment accountability
What it reported doing in 2024
Government license plate data base - contacted Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio deparment of transportation offices and obtained their datrabase of government owned vehicle license
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.7%; rating input score 11
- Program expense ratio: 12.7%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.7% of revenue deployed · 12.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $17K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 11/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.