Next Step Service Dogs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455266435
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Laguna Hills, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7604389190
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114,384
- Expenses
- $131,184
- Assets
- $17,045
- Liabilities
- $150,460
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEFAN BIEN (DIRECTORMILITARY LIASON)
- IAN DUNBAR (DIRECTOR)
- TED COLLINS (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
See schedule o
What it reported doing in 2024
Trained and certified 4 service dogs for military and first responders----- in addition, nssd trained and certified 2 facility dogs -(cont sch o)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 72.3%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 8.83; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.9% of revenue deployed · 72.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2012 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.