Chappy & Friends
Bringing Focus to Animal Welfare
Chappy & Friends
EIN: 82-1515583
as of September 2023
as of September 18, 2023
Mission
Chappy & Friends believes in empowering those helping the voiceless across the animal kingdom. We believe that all animals should have a safe environment in which to fulfill their varied purposes in this world. Too often, animals are treated as soulless creatures with no regard for their ability to feel pain, rejection, and suffering. Too often, they are left open to physical or mental abuse or are unable to receive the care or treatment they so desperately need. Chappy & Friends seeks to free those on the front lines of animal welfare activities from the mundane, everyday administrative and time-consuming tasks of running their own 501(c)(3) (tasks such as paperwork, IRS reporting, and board management). Thus, we allow these projects to focus on their respective lifesaving activities.
Ruling year
2017
Founder and President
Robert Bills
Main address
%Robert Bills 848 Proud Clarion Ct
Naperville, IL 60540 USA
EIN
82-1515583
Domesticated animals
Animal welfare
Population served
Adults
NTEE code
Animal Protection and Welfare (includes Humane Societies and SPCAs) (D20)
Management & Technical Assistance (D02)
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (D12)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.
Tax forms
Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Fiscal Sponsor to the Animal Kingdom
Chappy & Friends ignites grassroots animal welfare projects by “lending” them our 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status for the projects’ fundraising purposes. We also provide infrastructure that allows the projects to avoid IRS 990 filings and that eliminates the need to recruit and manage a board of directors. This frees the projects to focus on what they do best: serving the animal kingdom in positive ways.
Where we work
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Financials
Revenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2021 info
Months of cash in 2021 info
Fringe rate in 2021 info
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Assets & liabilities info
Financial data
Chappy & Friends
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
This snapshot of Chappy & Friends’s financial trends applies Nonprofit Finance Fund® analysis to data hosted by GuideStar. While it highlights the data that matter most, remember that context is key – numbers only tell part of any story.
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Business model indicators
| Profitability info | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | $4,033 |
| As % of expenses | 1.9% |
| Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | $4,033 |
| As % of expenses | 1.9% |
| Revenue composition info | |
|---|---|
| Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $214,851 |
| Total revenue, % change over prior year | 0.0% |
| Program services revenue | 2.8% |
| Membership dues | 0.2% |
| Investment income | 0.0% |
| Government grants | 0.0% |
| All other grants and contributions | 96.9% |
| Other revenue | 0.0% |
| Expense composition info | |
|---|---|
| Total expenses before depreciation | $210,734 |
| Total expenses, % change over prior year | 0.0% |
| Personnel | 0.0% |
| Professional fees | 0.6% |
| Occupancy | 0.0% |
| Interest | 0.0% |
| Pass-through | 96.5% |
| All other expenses | 2.9% |
| Full cost components (estimated) info | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Total expenses (after depreciation) | $210,734 |
| One month of savings | $17,561 |
| Debt principal payment | $0 |
| Fixed asset additions | $0 |
| Total full costs (estimated) | $228,295 |
Capital structure indicators
| Liquidity info | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Months of cash | 0.3 |
| Months of cash and investments | 0.3 |
| Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | -0.2 |
| Balance sheet composition info | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Cash | $4,914 |
| Investments | $0 |
| Receivables | $1,835 |
| Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $0 |
| Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 0.0% |
| Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 142.0% |
| Unrestricted net assets | -$2,918 |
| Temporarily restricted net assets | $84 |
| Permanently restricted net assets | $0 |
| Total restricted net assets | $84 |
| Total net assets | -$2,834 |
Key data checks
| Key data checks info | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Material data errors | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Founder and President
Robert Bills
Robert Bills is a finance, arts, and entertainment professional now pivoting to realize his life’s mission of impacting the welfare of animals. His muse for the creation of this entity is his puppy-mill breeding dog, Chappy. This 11-pound Havanese Poodle was captive in a Tennessee puppy mill for the first 5 ½ years of his life. Chappy, now 171/2, enjoys life largely due to his own courage and determination to demonstrate love for his family and friends.
Robert has studied Humane Education at The Humane Society Academy, has been a constant presence networking animals on Facebook for the past 12 year. He is an active student of various schools of thought for solving animal overpopulation, animal abuse and torture, and animal profiteering. Mr. Bills holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School and has studied Philanthropy at Northwestern University. He has also taught finance at Northwestern & University of Illinois at Chicago.
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
Chappy & Friends
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
Chappy & Friends
Board of directorsas of 06/08/2023
Board of directors data
jeff jarmuth
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