Kopper Top Life Learning Center
Legal name: Kopper Top Life Learning Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561925982
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Liberty, NC, US
- Phone
- 336.565.9723
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,921
- Expenses
- $90,686
- Assets
- $47,686
- Liabilities
- $39,863
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH MERIDITH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DEBORAH MERIDITH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DARLENE WILLARD (MEMBER)
- AMY ROMANET (MEMBER)
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
To empower individuals with disabilities and enhance quality of life through animal-assisted therapeutic services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Therapeutic services through the use of animals as a treatment alternative to traditional clinical settings. Service accomplishments include equine and other animal-assisted therapy services, education, and summer day camp provided to individuals with and without disabilities to empower and enhance quality of life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.84; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.