Police and Working K-9 Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272717583
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Woodside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6503770708
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,959
- Expenses
- $4,459
- Assets
- $149,279
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LOUISE VELAZQUEZ TULLY (President)
People named in this filing
- LOUISE VELAZQUEZ TULLY (President)
- OFFICER ALEX JOSE (Chairman)
- MICHELE HANSEN (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Police and Working K-9 Foundation works with local communities and law enforcement agencies in California to provide education, safety equipment and training for K-9 teams. We provide heat alarms for patrol cars, a K-9 Emergency Medicine Course and custom Cover Your K-9 Trauma kits. We maintain an important Cover Your K9 Retired K-9 Emergency Care Fund to provide emergency medical care to retired K-9s.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Police and Working K-9 Foundation Cover Your K-9 program has provided essential safety equipment and training for law enforcement K-9 teams in Northern California since 2009.Although we have had challenges sourcing supplies for our kits during the pandemic and during these years with multiple wars in the world, our hardworking volunteers are able to continue to make our custom Cover Your K9 Trauma Kits, which are valued at over $300 and distribute them to K-9 teams in California. Since starting our K9 emergency medical training in 2011, over 1875 law enforcement K9 handlers from local, state and federal agencies have attended the life-saving training & received K9 trauma kits. We are proud that our Cover Your Trauma Kits and advanced training have saved the lives of several K-9s over the past few years. We plan to offer our K-9 Emergency Medicine Course again in 2025.When police dogs retire they go to live with their handler and become part of the family. The responsibility for their ongoing care and any medical emergencies falls to the handler. We believe that these K9s who have served and protected us so bravely deserve much better in their golden years. To help them we have a special Retired K-9 Emergency Care Fund to assist with up to $1000 toward emergency care. We have learned that many of the elderly police dogs have developed spinal problems due to the demands placed on their bodies from many years of service. To assist those K9s with walking, we have program to provide these retired K9 heroes with specialized low profile mobility Help Em Up Harnesses to assist them with maintaining their daily activities and quality of life.We lost our primary sponsor due to the economic challenges of the pandemic and look forward to finding new sponsors to assist us with our mission going forward. We appreciate the continuing support of our donors and volunteers with providing support to assist our K-9 Heroes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 63% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.1%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 33.48; rating input score 97; 97th 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: -8.8% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.