Lower Bucks Dog Training Club
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232766106
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Langhorne, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2154931201
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,106
- Expenses
- $40,516
- Assets
- $53,874
- Liabilities
- $427
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Liz Turner (President)
- Helen Shaup (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Liz Turner (President)
- Helen Shaup (Vice President)
- Ken McKinney (Rec. Secretary)
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 promote responsible dog ownership
What it reported doing in 2024
Dog training classes offered to the community at all levels from beginners to advanced. Discounts and other financial considerations given to handlers/dogs in need - approximately 142 students
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.