Diggity Dogs Services Dogs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465303061
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Shelburne Falls, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9142223647
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Training, Behavior
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $217,457
- Expenses
- $333,263
- Assets
- $59,831
- Liabilities
- $76,987
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH LOUISE MEIKLE (PRESIDENT/TREASURER/CLERK)
- AMY BURNSIDE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH LOUISE MEIKLE (PRESIDENT/TREASURER/CLERK): $122,699 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Diggity dogs service dogs inc. Is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes, specifically to explore how cooperative and mutually beneficial relationships with dogs can provide invaluable assistance to humans and to provide individuals with disabilities an individually trained dog to mitigate their disability. We also provide those with disabilities the skills to train their own dogs to help to mitigate their disability, for those who are capable of doing so. Additionally, we seek to provide public and governmental education concerning invisible disabilities, the benefits of psychiatric and medical alert dogs, and the personal responsibility of service dog owners via educational materials including, but not limited to publications, website content and on-line media, public service announcements, lectures, and educational demonstrations at public events.
What it reported doing in 2023
We will provide service dogs to disabled applicants. Recipients receive a service dog that meets the standards as defined assistance dog international, as well as an intensive training education program followed by extensive ongoing training designed to tailor the dog's skills to meet the recipient's specific special needs
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 7
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -53.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.29; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $287K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.