Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462324265
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bowie, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3017129339
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Agricultural Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,745,461
- Expenses
- $11,157,081
- Assets
- $19,458,052
- Liabilities
- $702,105
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOAO DURR (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JOAO DURR (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $281,860 total reported compensation
- JOHN COLE (CHIEF RESEARCH/DEVELOPME): $232,608 total reported compensation
- JOSE CARRILLO (CHIEF DATA OFFICER): $229,952 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To maintain a high standard of integrity in data collection systems providing data for the national dairy genetic evaluation program database; to provide data for the use in research and education, including the development of effective procedures for estimating the genetic merit of dairy animals; to provide data and summaries of information to research and extension personnel, and to others for education purposes as appropriate; to improve the genetic merit and production efficiency of u.s. Dairy cattle, and to enhance the world market competitiveness of the u.s. Dairy industry.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conducts genetic evaluation for economically important traits of dairy cattle.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 73
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.74; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $282K · 19 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.1M reported
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.