King County Search Dogs

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911814938
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Bellevue, WA, USA
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,054
Expenses
$19,449
Assets
$248,232

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jonathan Izant (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Jonathan Izant (Board President)
  • Heather Jo Cutting (Board Secretary)
  • Annie Michelson (Board Treasurer)

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

King County Search Dogs is a nonprofit search and rescue organization dedicated to assisting law enforcement and public agencies in locating missing persons. The organization trains and deploys volunteer canine teams for wilderness urban and disaster search operations. Its primary purpose is to support public safety by providing highly trained search resources at no cost to the community. The organization also provides ongoing training education and operational support to its volunteer members to maintain readiness for search missions.

What it reported doing in 2025

King County Search Dogs provides trained volunteer canine teams to assist law enforcement and public agencies in locating missing persons. The organization maintains operational readiness through ongoing training certification and field exercises and responds to search missions in wilderness urban and disaster environments. To support these activities the organization provides financial assistance for training equipment and mission-related expenses to ensure volunteers are properly equipped and prepared for deployment. During the year the organization incurred approximately $14,458 in program service expenses including training and certification $7,915 scholarships for member development $3,964 training supplies $2,303 and mission-related operational reimbursements such as fuel and travel.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 88% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 53
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 77
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 39.6%; rating input score 40
  • Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 74

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 55.9%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.76; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -77.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -72% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 39.6% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.