Back The Blue K-9 Force

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813823391
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Centennial, CO, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$79,264
Expenses
$72,507
Assets
$192,247

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • Diane Lewis (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide the safety and medical needs of Law Enforcement K-9's. This includes protective vests, needed equipment, surgeries, etc. Requests for needed equipment are made by the K-9 handlers.

What it reported doing in 2025

Purchase of training books for K-9 handlers by Deputy Gray, purchase of new K-9 Apollo, vitamins for K-9 Riley, leash for K-9 Apollo, protective vest for K-9 Grimm, purchase of BTBK9F shirts for fundraising resale, three collapsible crate kennels for K-9s, dog food supplies, winter feeding costs for horses, medical care and horseshoes for Mounted Patrol horses, training harness for K-9 Ares, e-collar for K-9 Radar, Buddy Bowl for K-9 Riley, TADD scent jars, personalized collars for K-9s Rex, Mako, Nox, and Riley, replacement leashes, bark collar for K-9 Riley, purchase K-9 Pavo, outdoor dog kennel for K-9 Bill (APD), and purchase of stuffed dogs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.65; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.