Plum Creek Kennel Club of Colorado
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840943056
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kiowa, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3036211111
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,542
- Expenses
- $97,650
- Assets
- $101,524
- Liabilities
- $150
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN THOMPSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RJ HURST (RECORDING SE)
- SAMANTHA ISSACS (DIRECTOR)
- MARLENE GROVES (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
The plum creek kennel club of Colorado, inc (pckc) holds an annual two-day event sanctioned by the akc(american kennel club) where approximately 1250 dogs compete in conformation, obedience, and rally. It takes a year to plan and prepare for this all volunteer event. Revenue is generated from show entry fees, vendor fees, parking and grooming fees. Significant expenses include renting the venue, show superintendent, grooming tents, and judges. Day match show: pckc holds a one day sanctioned match, which is a practice dog show. Little revenue is generated. Conformation classes: pckc rents a bulding in castle rock, co one night a week, 40-45 weeks per year. The instructor is a pckc volunteer and memeber. This service is to the local community and does not produce income
What it reported doing in 2025
The plum creek kennel club of Colorado, inc (pckc) holds an event sanctioned by the akc, where dogs compete in conformation, obedience and rally. It takes approximately a year to prepare for the two day event which hosts about 1250 dogs, all volunteer member put on the show. Revenue is generated from show entry fees, vendor fees, parking and grooming fees. Significant expenses include renting the venue, show superintendent grooming tents and judges. Public weekly training for dog shows in the area of conformity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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
STRONG - 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; 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: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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
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- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.