K9 Charities

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 872732617
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2023–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location: Royal Oak, MI, USA
Phone: 2482245106
Rating: 36
Verdict: REVIEW
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue: $194,142
Expenses: $234,137
Assets: $16,659

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

JEFFREY S NUTTER (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

JEFFREY S NUTTER (PRESIDENT)

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

K9 charities is a non profit corporation and shall operate exclusively for educational and charitable purposes within the meaning of section 501 (c) (3) of the-internal revenue code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. K9 charities' purpose is focused on raising awareness for the plight of dogs throughout the state of Michigan along with advocating for foster care, spay and neutering.

What it reported doing in 2025

Contributions to financing various animal (mostly dogs) charities

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 100% 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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 1
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 14
Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 1%; rating input score 1
Program expense ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 1

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -20.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th 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: -71.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 1% of revenue deployed · 0.9% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.