National Canine Cancer Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030581083
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 9034249587
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $289,739
- Expenses
- $224,379
- Assets
- $286,429
- Liabilities
- $369,960
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gary D Nice (President Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Sara Nice (Director): $40,728 total reported compensation
- Gary D Nice (President Director): $8,688 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The National Canine Cancer Foundation strives to eliminate cancer as a major health problem in dogs through education outreach and research. They also help save lives through prevention finding cures better treatments more accurate cost effective diagnostic methods in dealing with cancer and diminishing dogs suffering from cancer.
What it reported doing in 2024
Through NCCF the public has access to resources to aid in the prevention diagnosis and effective treatment of cancer in dogs. Along with multiple tools available via the website NCCFs Facebook page has well over 50,000 followers who are able to find support and access to resources specific to canine cancer.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.4%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 60%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.6%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.29; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.4% of revenue deployed · 60% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $135K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $41K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 46/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.