Big Paws Canine Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455291316
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Aynor, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8442447297
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Other Services - Specialty Animals
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $64,977
- Expenses
- $47,286
- Assets
- $70,947
- Liabilities
- $36,700
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Slavik (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Mary Slavik (President & CEO)
- Steven Slavik (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
Providing therapy dogs to veterans
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing service, therapy & companion dogs to veterans and first responders
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
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 10
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -38.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7% of revenue deployed · 9.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.