K9 Youth Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461604776
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4242725992
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $145,836
- Expenses
- $191,705
- Assets
- $131,724
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KELLY OSBURN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- AVALON ECONOMOU (DIRECTOR)
- JENNIFER HIRANO (DIRECTOR)
- ABRIL CALDERON TO 122024 (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
K9 youth alliance enriches the lives of youth from under-resourced communities and helps abandoned dogs find permanent homes. In its traditional program model, young people and shelter dogs learn together one-on-one under the mentorship of dedicated staff and volunteers. These three-week programs use reward-based, force-free dog training methods, humane education and animal advocacy to promote leadership and personal growth for youth while helping shelter dogs find loving homes. K9 youth alliance piloted a program variation in 2022. Here, adult volunteers participated in a 3-week training and enrichment program, gaining advanced dog handling experience by training abandoned dogs at the shelter. This program model equips volunteer mentors with a broader range of skills to assist youth in the traditional program model and serve 2-3 times the number of dogs served in the traditional model.
What it reported doing in 2024
1) twenty youth served directly in programs for a combined 492+ hours of youth development, equipping youth from under-resourced communities with skills like force-free dog training, leadership and instruction, teamwork and public speaking. 2) an additional 130 youth attended one day presentations focused on how they can get involved in animal welfare, dog training and important humane education tenets. 3) six graduates of the program returned as interns to assist staff, mentor their peers and explore pathways to careers. 4) provided daily training, enrichment and advocacy for over 62 abandoned shelter dogs. 5) provided over 1181 hours of canine training & enrichment. 6) powered four programs with 1,880+ volunteer hours. 7) continued program partnerships with the boys & girls club of pasadena and los angeles animal services. 8) launched k9ya post-program dog pack hikes 9) the families of three students adopted the program dog their youth worked with!
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 90% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.2%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
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: -31.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.2% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.