Allegiance Ranch and Equine Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821319164
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Erie, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7203012533
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $156,736
- Expenses
- $156,235
- Assets
- $41,535
- Liabilities
- $16,436
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- GLORIA TIMMONS (EXECUTIVE DI)
- DAN TIMMONS (BOARD PRESID)
- TODD HEIRLS (BOARD VP)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Allegiance ranch & equine rescue is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization rescuing at-risk horses and offering equine-assisted support programs for veterans, first responders, and their families. Allegiance ranch was born out of love for rescue horses and a desire to honor our country's veterans. Our mission is to help horses and heroes by offering a safe place for healing, developing a sense of purpose, and establishing meaningful connections between horses and humans. We rehabilitate and retrain horses for use in equine-assisted programs while also preparing others for adoptive homes. We also offer free programs for beterans and their families including horsemanship clinics, individualized training and riding lessons, unstructured time with horses, and monthly veteran gatherings. Allegiance ranch and equine rescue's mission is to help horses and heroes by offering a safe place for healing, developing a sense of purpose, and establishing meaningful connections between horses and humans.
What it reported doing in 2025
Allegiance ranch & equine rescue continued to fulfill its mission of providing no-cost equine-supported programs for veterans, first responders, and active military while rescuing, rehabilitating, and caring for horses in need. The organization conducted 10 equine clinics serving 59 participants, hosted nine monthly musters with 107 attendees, provided riding lessons to 92 participants, facilitated 53 weekly warrior equine group participants, and delivered 23 individual therapy sessions in partnership with a licensed mental health professional. Community engagement remained a cornerstone of the organization's work, with volunteers contributing approximately 2,488 hours of service in support of ranch operations and programming. Allegiance ranch also hosted community events, welcomed multiple civic and military organizations for onsite visits, participated in offsite outreach activities, and conducted fundraising events to help sustain its programs and services. These efforts expanded community awareness while ensuring that programs remained available at no cost to veterans and first responders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.3%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.9% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $141K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.