Crisis Canines of the Midlands
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883484507
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Reasnor, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5154016043
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Training, Behavior
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $171,774
- Expenses
- $144,716
- Assets
- $81,643
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- REBECCA CODY (DIRECTOR)
- TJ DECKER (DIRECTOR)
- SUSAN KRISKO (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 facilitate and coordinate the implementation of crisis response therapy dog teams in first responder agencies, so that these teams may provide peer support and animal assisted crisis response to support the mental health of individuals affected by, and responding to, crises and disasters.
What it reported doing in 2025
What is a crisis response k9 team? A crisis response k9 team is a certified therapy dog handled by a first responder trained in critical incident stress management. This team trains together for as long as 12-18 months to develop skills set at the highest national standards of animal assisted crisis response. Each team is then tested and certified by master k9 trainers at the crisis response k9 academy. Graduates of the academy are then able to be deployed by their agency to provide support to those affected by critical incidents. What can a crisis response team do? Provide peer support for other first responders assist with incident debriefings within first responder agencies respond directly to major traumatic or disaster events provide support to those enduring grief, loss, or trauma aid prosecutors in victim interviews and depositions visit medical facilities to support staff as well as patients support schools during emergency drills as well as with educational visits to raise awareness about mental wellness
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 42.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.8% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.