Positive Paws K-9 Angels

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825283398
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Waynesboro, VA, USA
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$117,130
Expenses
$119,302
Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Roberta Blackburn (President)

People named in this filing

  • Roberta Blackburn (President)
  • Shelli Crust (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

Therapy Dog Training: To provide training skills for both the human and the dog in order to prepare them for visiting people in a situation providing educational therapeutic recreational and or specific therapy. To design and organize therapeutic programs in facilities where therapy dogs are requested as well as to provide ongoing support to visiting therapy dogs and their handlers. This includes continuing training to sustain the handler-dog relationship and learning new skills for specific goals within each program. This package includes Beginner Intermediate and advance commands. C.G.C. certificate While Emotional Support Animals or Comfort Animals are often used as part of a medical treatment plan as therapy animals they are not considered service animals under the ADA. These support animals provide companionship relieve loneliness and sometimes help with depression anxiety and certain phobias but do not have special training to perform tasks that assist people.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided services as described in Program services goals in previous section

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 87% 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. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 100

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; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $119K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.