Total Courage Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475237773
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Oro Valley, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 8082203087
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,440
- Expenses
- $71,546
- Assets
- $49,070
- Liabilities
- $1,120
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARRYL W DAUGHERTY JR (PRESIDENT & EXEC. DIRECTOR)
- GAYLE S TASAKA (VICE PRESIDENT & SECRETARY)
People named in this filing
- DARRYL W DAUGHERTY JR (PRESIDENT & EXEC. DIRECTOR)
- MARILYN J GAGEN (TREASURER)
- GAYLE S TASAKA (VICE PRESIDENT & 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
To provide character based education and training programs to church groups, church leaders, secondary school and college coaches, student-athletes and the community at large. The goal of these programs is to reinforce to youth, student-athletes and the community, the value of leading a principled life. Our emphasis is on providing at-risk youth, and the coaches who coach them, with the resources to use sports to learn life lessons. Our character coaches act as positive role models for student athletes from disadvantaged family and community situations. Our character coaches give the coaches, teachers, and student athletes the tools to making themselves better, making their teammates better, and learning the benefits of living a life of character.
What it reported doing in 2025
"rescuing dogs to save vets" program consists of volunteer licensed social workers, experienced animal trainers, veterinary technicians and over 300 canine rescue organizations and animal shelters nationwide. The key differentiator over similar organizations is matching emotional support canines from shelters and rescue organizations with veterans in order to save two lives with each match, the veteran and the dog. Sadly, many nonprofits force high-end, expensive breeds on veterans who are unable to care for them when they actually need an age appropriate or behavior appropriate companion. 22 veterans commit suicide every day in the united states. What most americans don't realize is that the preponderance of these victims are 70 years old or older. Many are vietnam veterans that suffer from loneliness or isolation and ptsd creeps back in creating a feeling of hopelessness. Our selected and trained canines fill that gap.once the veteran or first responder and the canine are matched, we practice the 3-3-3 technique whereupon we check in on the third day, third week and third month with a selected team of social workers, trainers and vet techs to make sure that the transition is truly serving our veterans in need.we also rescue dogs and train them to be search and rescue dogs for first responders. These dogs are trained and fostered by veterans from the army k-9 unit.
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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.9%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.9% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.