The Therapet Animal Assisted Therapy Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752554185
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Tyler, TX, USA
Phone
9035352125
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$403,436
Expenses
$343,743
Assets
$832,355
Liabilities
$2,979

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TERI CRAWFORD (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • ELYSIA M REINICK (Executive Dir.): $66,225 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Therapets mission is to utilize specially trained and certified animals to promote health, hope, and healing. We accomplish this mission by:1. Establishing and communicating standards for using specially trained animals in the healthcare setting.2. Providing education to health care professionals.3. Educating communities on opportunities and benefits of Animal Assisted Therapy.4. Training, certifying, and assuring competency of human/animal volunteer teams.

What it reported doing in 2025

Since 1994, Therapet has provided Animal Assisted Activities (AAA) or Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) free of charge. Therapet is directly involved in a wide range of human services including physical and cognitive rehabilitation, therapeutic interventions with victims of family violence and sexual assault, reading programs, education seminars, and community events. In 2025, Therapet sponsored approximately 86 human/animal teams including 78 dogs, 3 cats and a cockatoo. Therapet teams served the community with approximately 7,427 volunteer hours of AAA/AAT and an estimated 5,000 human/animal encounters yearly including over 1,351 animal visits. Therapets 2025 accomplishments:1. Therapet Skills Class: Therapet continued training teams with 20 formal classes especially designed to train new teams. 9 new teams were certified.2.Team re-certification: To ensure Therapet teams are highly skilled, certified teams undergo an annual recertification process and volunteer orientation. 66 teams were recertified.3.AAA/AAT programs: Therapet maintained or enhanced AAA/AAT services to an extremely wide range of settings. These include the following: a.Community agencies who provide emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.b.Community agencies who serve as advocate for abused children.c.Hospitals, rehabilitation centers and schools for patients, clients, students who are mentally challenged, have a neurologic deficit due to stroke, injury or birth defect or those who are recovering from major surgical procedures or debilitating diseases.d.Community agencies and schools to assist students reading below grade level improve reading skills and comprehension.4.Capacity building: Therapet has hired an executive director since 2015 and this has enabled us to focus on growth and retention with the goal to be able to remove agencies from our waiting list and meet the demand for our services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 45
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 49.7%; rating input score 50
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 14.8%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.42; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 19.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47% of revenue deployed · 49.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $171K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.