Cape Fear Dog Training Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561388932
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Fayetteville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 4807891065
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Other Services - Specialty Animals
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,180
- Expenses
- $57,441
- Assets
- $766,751
- Liabilities
- $5,240
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Groening (President)
- Heather Holder-Hall (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Joan Florentine (Director)
- Chris White (Director)
- Roberta Pylate (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Create, Promote and instill a better understanding in the community for all dogs - promote and provide obedience training programs for all dogs - conduct and support obedience and rally matches and trials under American Kennel Club rules and regulations.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ongoing public training classes: Obedience and Rally training.AKC licenses events held: Obedience and Rally trials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 most voting board members are independent. 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: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.8%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 35.6%; rating input score 36
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 55.5%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.35; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -55.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.8% of revenue deployed · 35.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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 16/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.