Dogs Deserve Better Piedmont
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993535120
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Creedmoor, NC, USA
- Phone
- 5859434497
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,511
- Expenses
- $131,134
- Assets
- $27,073
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lucy Poynton (BOD - President)
People named in this filing
- Lucy Poynton (BOD - President)
- Joe Ostrowsky (BOD - Treasurer)
- Kelly Davis (BOD - Secretary)
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
Mission The mission of Dogs Deserve Better Piedmont is to improve the lives of tethered or neglected dogs We strive to accomplish this through installing large covered kennels or fences to unchain the dogs We encourage indoor time educate communities on animal welfare and care promote and facilitate spay and neuter provide urgent veterinary care and provide needed care and supplies in underserved communities We work to ensure the lives of the outdoor dogs are just a bit better any way we can What We Do When we meet dogs we assess their needs and do whatever we can to help We untether dogs encourage families to bring them inside and spend quality time with them We emphasize the importance of spaying and neutering and strongly recommend it If pets are sick or injured we step in to prevent their suffering even arranging vet appointments and assisting with costs when we can
What it reported doing in 2025
Outreach - Site visits basic pet needs flea tick control dewormer raised beds dog houses etc 251 Families Helped 323 Dogs Helped 67 Cats Helped
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.8% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.