Ron and Vicki Santo Diabetic Alert Dogs Foundation

Analysis

Ron and Vicki Santo Diabetic Alert Dogs Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Scottsdale, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Ron and Vicki Santo Diabetic Alert Dogs Foundation reported income of $67k and spending of $197k, spending 295% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $154k to $67k (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 133% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Ron and Vicki Santo Diabetic Alert Dogs Foundation sits at the 20th percentile: it is larger than about 20% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 26th percentile, and in the 24th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ride to Ride Out Breast Cancer ($67k), Spina Bifida Association of Arizona Inc ($67k) and Chinese Biological Investigators Society Inc ($67k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 63% and program service revenue 45% of the total. At year end it held assets of $330k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $330k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.