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AMERICAN VETERANS SERVICE DOG ACADEMY

EIN 46-5397186 LEMONT, IL

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Revenue 2025
$268,322
Expenses 2025
$254,625

Program services were 5.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W30
Classification
1000
Street
4 WILD PLUM CT

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 8TH, 2021: AVSDA WAS FOUNDED FOR, AND HAS AS ITS CORE MISSION, THE REDUCTION OF SUICIDE NUMBERS AMONGST VETERANS DIAGNOSED WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS (PTS). WE STRIVE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL THROUGH OUR SERVICE DOG TRAINING PROGRAM WHICH PAIRS AND TRAINS VETERANS WITH THEIR DOGS TO BECOME WORKING TEAMS. OUR PROGRAM IS ADMINISTERED BY PROFESSIONAL, KNOWLEDGEABLE, AND DEDICATED STAFF WHO ASSIST OUR VETERANS IN REACHING THEIR GOAL OF A BETTER, HAPPIER, MORE PRODUCTIVE LIFE WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THEIR SERVICE DOG.

  • PROVIDED TRAINING TO 16 VETERAN SERVICE DOG TEAMS AND FOUR GRADUATED. NEW APPLICANTS ARE BEING WELCOMED ON A ROLLING BASIS. CONDUCTED SERVICE DOG AWARENESS OUTREACH AND INTERACTIONS WITH THE PUBLIC AND LOCAL BUSINESSES.

    Expenses $13,141

  • AVSDA HAS CONTINUED PATNERSHIP WITH KANKAKEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND HAVE TAKEN OUR SERVICE DOG PROGRAM INTO THE COLLEGE. THE 2 YEAR ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM IN HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS IS CURRENTLY ON HOLD.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Benjamin Sanders

    PRESIDENT -

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 4 related

  • Eric Carlson

    TREASURER -

    Total calculated
    $54,000
    From this org
    $54,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 40 related

  • Lynn Sebek

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Robert Perez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Aaron Rupp

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Keith Stevenson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $268,322
    Expenses
    $254,625
    Contributions
    $268,322
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $243,144
    Expenses
    $225,413
    Contributions
    $243,144
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $201,691
    Expenses
    $213,244
    Contributions
    $201,691
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $268,743
    Expenses
    $200,887
    Contributions
    $268,743
    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
    $200,024
    Expenses
    $164,116
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,388

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $144,282
    Expenses
    $160,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,503

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $134,522
    Expenses
    $156,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,391

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $154,202
    Expenses
    $105,898
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,941

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.