National Search Dog Alliance
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412237542
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4232373747
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal-Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,966
- Expenses
- $65,977
- Assets
- $140,318
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERRY CROOKS (President)
- AMITY LARSEN (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- TERRY CROOKS (President)
- AMITY LARSEN (Vice President)
- GLEN GANTZ (CFO)
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
Provide education & certification to sar k-9s and handlers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nsda's goal each year is to add more evaluators so that more certification tests can be given to handlers and k-9s.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 5
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.3%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 6
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.13; rating input score 67; 67th 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: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.3% of revenue deployed · 5.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2012 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.