Independent Veterinary Practitioners Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821118505
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Aiken, SC, USA
- Phone
- 9192195210
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $401,437
- Expenses
- $346,354
- Assets
- $88,730
- Liabilities
- $5,570
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bonnie Brogdon (Past President)
- Arnold Goldman (President)
- Paul DeMaris (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Pamela Stevenson (Executive Dir.): $54,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Coming together to stay independent.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the Independent Veterinary Practitioners Association (IVPA) advanced its strategic initiatives to enhance member benefits, enabling independently owned veterinary practices to better compete with private equity-owned corporations for both talent and clientele.These enhanced benefits helped members manage operational costs more effectively and offer employee perks typically available only to larger organizations.Throughout the year, IVPA achieved several key milestones, including more than doubling its membership and launching quarterly virtual continuing education summits designed to strengthen members business acumen. The podcast project initiated in 2024 is currentlyon hiatus as the organization seeks a volunteer host. IVPA also continued to increase awareness of its mission to support independently owned and locally operated veterinary practices amid growing corporatization in the field.In addition, IVPAs committees actively secured partnerships with vendors and sponsors and exhibited at a national veterinary conference, further strengthening support for the organization and its members. These efforts contribute to the long-term sustainability of independently owned veterinary practices.Looking ahead to 2026, IVPA will continue to focus on member acquisition, engagement, and retention, as well as expanding purchasing agreements that enable members to compete more effectively with corporate and private equity-backed practices. The significant membership growth experienced in 2025 underscores IVPAs commitment to delivering valuable resources to its member clinics. The organization remains well-positioned for continued expansion and success in the coming year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
- 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; 64th 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: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.7% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.