American Farriers Association Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872999231
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lexington, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8592337411
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,484
- Expenses
- $42,831
- Assets
- $190,410
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOUG RUSSO (Vice President)
- TRAVIS BURNS (President)
People named in this filing
- DOUG RUSSO (Vice President)
- TRAVIS BURNS (President)
- TIM BYRNE (Treasurer)
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
Conduct research and education related to american farriers, engage in grantmaking and philanthropic endeavors for american farriers, and provide financial support for activities for the american farriers association.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grant making and philanthropic endeavors for american farriers
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 32.9%; rating input score 33
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -159.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.45; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 65.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 32.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.