Tadsaw Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454556055
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2106432901
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Training, Behavior
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $331,325
- Expenses
- $420,549
- Assets
- $96,416
- Liabilities
- $3,495
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BART SHERWOOD (PRESIDENT)
- BRANDON SHERWOOD (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BART SHERWOOD (PRESIDENT)
- BRANDON SHERWOOD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHERRIE KING (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule o
What it reported doing in 2025
Since july 2010, tadsaw has accredited 1,671 medical alert service dog teams (male:1,128// female:543) throughout the united states area communities, including 181 (**11%**) vietnam veteran (m:169//f:12) and two korean war veteran and 86 tadsaf ('train a dog - save a family' member program) and 20 tadsar ("train a dog - save a first responder") and 81 tadsac ('train a dog - save a child//civilian/community' member') teams! In 2025 - tadsaw accredited 122 medical alert service dog teams (m:60//f:62), including 7 vietnam veteran (m:79) and 14 tadsaf (m:4//f:10) and 7 tadsar (m:2//f:5) and 22 tadsac (m:6//f:16) teams!! Tadsaw/tadsaf/tadsar/tadsac are most unique as it is a participant trained service dog (ptsd) program - meaning the client, is totally involved in the training of their medical alert service dog for their diagnosed medical condition, where a service dog would be an appropriate addition and beneficial to restore and improve to their quality of life and destigmatize the present classification now described as a mental health/mental illness or other medical condition.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $419K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.