Calvert K-9 Search Team Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262038393
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Dunkirk, MD, USA
Phone
3019439221
Rating
52
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Search and Rescue Squads

Reported finances

Revenue
$17,456
Expenses
$6,521
Assets
$41,244
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Danielle Konerth (President of the Board)

People named in this filing

  • THEODORE CARSON (Commander)
  • Danielle Konerth (President of the Board)
  • Brittany Duvall (Admin Chief)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide nationally certified search dog teams with support management personnel to requesting agencies to assist in finding lost or missing persons utilizing the teams volunteer member dogs. Additionally provide Community Education awareness training on how to avoid getting lost and what to do to help search teams find you if you have become lost.

What it reported doing in 2025

The majority of Calvert K-9 Search Teams time is spent training both the canines and the members to be ready to execute a search mission This includes all facets of dog and handler training to conduct search operations starting at the basic building blocks of dog handler interactions specific canine search technique training steps and advanced dog training. Training culminates in independent National Association of Search and Rescue NASAR testing certification followed by long term training to maintain proficiency. Both the individual members and team as a whole also train in search technique skills search management victim behavior and effectively working within the Incident Command System structure. All members are also independently tested and certified by NASAR. The end result is a professionally trained volunteer search and rescue canine team ready to save lives

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

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 voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 18
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22.9%; rating input score 23
  • Program expense ratio: 61.2%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $80.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 62.6%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.32; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -25.3% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22.9% of revenue deployed · 61.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 37 of 40 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • 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 23/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.