GROUND ZERO EMERGENCY TRAINING CENTER FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D61

Classification

4000

Street

3334 W MAIN STREET STE 445

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Mission and programs · 2024

• EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS SEARCH AND RESCUE CANINE TEAM TRAINING PROGRAM PRODUCES HIGHLY SPECIALIZED SAR CANINES, VALUED AT $50,000, PLACES THEM WITH EMERGENCY RESPONDERS AT NO CHARGE, AND TRAINS THEM TO BE A TEAM. THE PROGRAM INCLUDES 18 MONTHS OF INTENSIVE CANINE TRAINING IN RUBBLE PILE, WILDERNESS, SCENT TRAILING, AND WATER RESCUE AND RECOVERY. TRAINING FOR SAR TEAMS INCLUDES STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE, SEARCH TACTICS, BASIC AND ADVANCED MEDICAL TRIAGE, RESPONSE TO ACTIVE SHOOTER INCIDENTS, HAZMAT, BASIC AND ADVANCED TECHNICAL RESCUE, AND MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS. CANINES LEARN TO SEARCH, LOCATE AND ALERT WHEN HUMAN SCENT IS DETECTED AND ARE TRAINED TO IGNORE ALL OTHER SMELLS. MOST IMPORTANTLY, THEY LEARN TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE SCENT OF THE FIRST RESPONDER AND THE VICTIM WHO MIGHT BE BURIED BENEATH THE RUBBLE. THIS SPECIALIZED TRAINING MEANS WHEN A TRAINED CANINE BARKS TO ALERT THE FIRST RESPONDER, THERE IS, IN FACT, A PERSON IN NEED OF RESCUING. CANINES ARE ALSO TRAINED TO NAVIGATE UNSTABLE FOOTING, INCLUDING COLLAPSED CONCRETE BUILDINGS WITH GLASS AND NAILS EVERYWHERE. OFF-LEASH TRAINING ENABLES THE CANINE, INDEPENDENT OF THEIR HANDLER, TO SEARCH THE SCENE OF A DISASTER MORE SAFELY AND EFFECTIVELY THAN A HUMAN FIRST RESPONDER. IN 2016, THERE WERE ONLY 9 DOGS CERTIFIED IN OKLAHOMA TO RESPOND TO DISASTER EVENTS AND MOST WERE NEARING RETIREMENT AGE. OK TASK FORCE 1, COMPRISED OF EMERGENCY RESPONDERS FROM TULSA AND OKLAHOMA CITY, HAD BEEN ON A WAITLIST FOR OVER 3 YEARS TO RECEIVE NEW CANINES, PUTTING THE TASK FORCE TEAMS IN BOTH CITIES IN A DIRE POSITION. GROUND ZERO ENSURES OKLAHOMA EMERGENCY RESPONDERS ALWAYS HAVE THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF CERTIFIED SAR CANINES REQUIRED TO DEPLOY AND PROVIDES ADVANCED TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATIONS FOR SAR TEAMS. GROUND ZERO'S PROGRAMS INCLUDE COMMUNITY EDUCATION PRESENTATIONS, DISASTER RISK AWARENESS, PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PRESENTATIONS IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED SKILL TRAINING FOR EMERGENCY RESPONDERS.

  Expenses $582,162 · Revenue $2,796

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $754,187

  Expenses

  $611,361

  Contributions

  $1,132,135

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $680,201

  Expenses

  $455,531

  Contributions

  $927,888

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $955,024

  Expenses

  $803,852

  Contributions

  $249,359

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $446,943

  Expenses

  $334,184

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,127,778

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $715,124

  Expenses

  $341,031

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,837,354

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $625,439

  Expenses

  $359,009

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,034,628

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $760,663

  Expenses

  $340,767

  Assets (EOY)

  $757,000

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $290,470

  Expenses

  $56,393

  Assets (EOY)

  $243,786

• 2015 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $9,950

  Expenses

  $7,768

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,182

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• HEART TO HEART HOSPICE FOUNDATION

  $35,000

  2024 · GENERAL DONATION

• TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $30,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $28,500

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS

  $25,000

  2024 · FOR GENERAL PURPOSES

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2022 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $10,000

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSE

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