Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$164,922

Total expenses

$138,285

Contributions and grants received

$71,980

Grants paid

$6,785

Program service revenue

— not reported

Membership dues (line 3)

$40,000

Investment income (line 4)

— not reported

Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)

— not reported

Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)

$49,942

Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)

$0

Other revenue (line 8)

$3,000

Total assets, end of year

$278,637

Total liabilities, end of year

— not reported

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$278,637

Program service expenses (Part III)

$97,000

Program services were 70.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Helping to Rehome racing touring or recreational mushing sled dog new homes when their formal running days are done. We increase the number of dogs we help each year. We also facilitate transportation for mushers who send their dogs outside of Alaska and also advertise for mushers who choose to adopt direct from their kennels rather than have us place in foster homes. Each dog we place through our fostering receives a basic health exam spay or neutering and applicable vaccinations.

  Expenses $40,000 · Grants $50,000

• Onsite Vet Clinic: We purchased a small building and had a donor pay to finish the interior plus other grants for equipment to host a visiting veterinarian to perform spay and neuter procedures for the previous years pups that were adopted and for incoming retiring sled dogs that were not already altered.

  Expenses $37,000 · Grants $37,000

• This past year we took in 14 litters of puppies from Alaska Native Villages that were flown in to Anchorage. This amounted to more than 100 puppies and some with moms still nursing to be spayed and rehomed or returned back to their owners in the villages. Each litter of puppies was fostered here on site or at mushing tour kennels where the puppies would be handled by tourists and be cared for daily until old enough to be adopted. This provides wonderful socialization and growth opportunities for the puppies who end up being confident happy and more easy to adapt to their new adoptive families meaning we have less returns after adoption.

  Expenses $20,000 · Grants $30,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part IV

• Julie St Louis

  Director

  Total calculated

  $12,000

  Compensation

  $0

  Benefit plans

  $0

  Expense account

  $12,000

  Hours/week

  35

• Gwendolyn Johnson

  Treasurer and Gaming licensee

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Mercedes Wallace

  Assistant Director

  Total calculated

  $3,000

  Compensation

  $0

  Benefit plans

  $0

  Expense account

  $3,000

  Hours/week

  8

• Dan Choate

  Board member and event volunteer

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  8

• Rachael Tayam

  Board Member and Secretary

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  4

• Meryl Trahant

  Board Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2

• Jeannine Armour

  Co-Founder and Board Member

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990_ez

Tax year

2024

Filed

8 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.1

Source object

202543129349200604

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