Greyhound Friends of NJ, Inc.
Legal name: Greyhound Friends of New Jersey Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223762543
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Millsboro, DE, US
- Phone
- (732) 356-4370
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $428,467
- Expenses
- $251,923
- Assets
- $269,035
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA LYMAN (Vice President)
- MARIA LUTZ (President)
People named in this filing
- GEORGIA SCHILLING (Trustee)
- CAROLANN ABBATE (Trustee)
- RAYMOND ACOSTA (Trustee)
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
Greyhound Friends of New Jersey, Inc. (GFNJ) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption of retired racing greyhounds. We provide these gentle dogs with the care and training they need to become beloved family pets, and we work to find them loving, permanent homes.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization places greyhounds and other needy dogs in adoptive homes. The organization also provides veterinary care for all dogs taken in. This includes spay/neuter, inoculations, heartworm tests, and teeth cleaning. The organization provides all adopters with written and oral information on the proper care of the adopted dogs. The organization provides the public with inforamtion on the proper care of greyhounds, pets in general and on responsible pet ownership through "meet and greet" events, speanking engagements, etc. Greyhound freinds of New Jersey, inc produces a twice yearly newsletter and maintains a website that explains the organization and its upcoming events and contains a list of adoptable dogs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.7%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.2%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -14.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 57.7% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $247K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.