Operation K9 Beethoven a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871417235
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Paramus, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2019861111
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Other Services - Specialty Animals
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,337
- Expenses
- $39,055
- Assets
- $35,240
- Liabilities
- $893
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Arpad Kertesz (President)
- Brian Reyngoudt (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Arpad Kertesz (President)
- Brian Reyngoudt (Vice President)
- Maureen Zajicek (Treasurer)
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
Helping veterans one paw at a time
What it reported doing in 2025
Operation K9 Beethoven (OK9B) placed 8 trained service days with veterans in 2025 at no cost to veterans. Each veteran also received a comprehensive starter kit, which includes essential items such as kennel, bed, blanket, leash, collar, bowls, a bag of dog food, treats, toys, and a service vest complete with patches. OK9B added 6 more Therapy Dog Teams in 2025. OK9B Therapy Dog Team visited 47 institutions in 2025 (i.e. Veterans homes, special needs, and regular schools, Scouts of America meetings, Nursing Homes/Rehab Centers. These visits aim to bring comfort, companionship, and emotional support to veterans and others in need, fostering a sense of connection and community. Through this outreach, Operation K9 Beethoven strive to make a positive impact on mental health and well-being in various settings, offering the healing presence of our therapy dogs to those who could benefit from it most. OK9B increased public awareness of service and therapy dogs. OK9B created a "teaching" program called Service Animals and Us. OK9B broke it down into age brackets K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and made each teaching booklet age appropriate. The lessons are as follows: Teaching the kids about Service Dogs and Therapy Dogs; What is their purpose and how they help individuals and groups; How to approach a dog; and How to take care of animals. Every event, podcast, radio spot, etc. is a teaching moment to teach people about OK9B mission, how important our veterans are, their sacrifice to our country. And another teaching moment is to bring awareness to people about how many rescue dogs there are and how the rescues and shelters are overrun and need help. OK9B is working with an author to write a book about "Duffy the Deaf Therapy Dog". Another teaching moment that speaks to disabilities and inclusion. And teaching that just because he is disabled, he is remarkable, he understands sign language, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.6%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 60%; rating input score 60
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -59.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.6% of revenue deployed · 60% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K 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: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.