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ECAD, Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Enable people with disabilities to gain greater independence and mobility through the use of specially educated dogs.

East Coast Assistance Dogs D/B/A ECAD, Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities was founded by Lu and Dale Picard. When Lu's father suffered a stroke, she saw how much he hated being dependent on her. She taught their family pet to help him rise from a chair and retrieve some items, and noticed that her dad actually became more active and less depressed than when all his help came from a human. Lu saw first hand how Service Dogs could change people's lives, and in 1995 quit her full-time job to start ECAD. ECAD has grown to have training facilities in Connecticut and New York, and have placed Assistance Dogs in over a dozen states.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

92.92Overall score
out of 100

90.00Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$1,593,082

Total expenses · USD$895,834

Program expenses

$781,167.25 recorded amount

87.2%

Fundraising expenses

$30,458.36 recorded amount

3.4%

Administrative expenses

$82,416.73 recorded amount

9.2%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.02 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Dale Picard
Recorded compensation: $107,868.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 12.04%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for ECAD, Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Animals
`description` Mission & description	East Coast Assistance Dogs D/B/A ECAD, Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities was founded by Lu and Dale Picard. When Lu's father suffered a stroke, she saw how much he hated being dependent on her. She taught their family pet to help him rise from a chair and retrieve some items, and noticed that her dad actually became more active and less depressed than when all his help came from a human. Lu saw first hand how Service Dogs could change people's lives, and in 1995 quit her full-time job to start ECAD. ECAD has grown to have training facilities in Connecticut and New York, and have placed Assistance Dogs in over a dozen states.
`ein` EIN	06-1436718
`tot_exp` Total expenses	895834.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.092
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.02
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.034
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.872
`fscore` Financial score	90.0
`leader` Recorded leader	Dale Picard
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	107868.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.1204
`motto` Tagline	Enable people with disabilities to gain greater independence and mobility through the use of specially educated dogs.
`name` Charity name	ECAD, Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities
`tot_rev` Total revenue	1593082.0
`score` Overall score	92.92
`state` State code	CT
`subcategory` Subcategory	Animal Rights, Welfare, and Services
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	781167.248
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	30458.356000000003
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	82416.728

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 06-1436718
Source category: Animals
Source subcategory: Animal Rights, Welfare, and Services
Recorded location: Connecticut (CT)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.