Sarasota K-9 Search and Rescue Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 650845818
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8636461373
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Search and Rescue Squads
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,171
- Expenses
- $14,061
- Assets
- $140,744
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHARLES KENNIFF (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHARLES KENNIFF (PRESIDENT)
- SHEILA SULLIVAN (VICE-PRESIDE)
- RHEA MACHADO (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Canine search, rescue, and training.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide k-9 search teams for natural disasters and for locating missing persons. Work with local law enforcement.
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 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. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.7%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 43.9%; rating input score 44
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -38.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.01; rating input score 92; 92nd 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: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.7% of revenue deployed · 43.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.