Blackberry Creek Farm Animal Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472296714
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Colfax, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5307743027
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $103,735
- Expenses
- $96,308
- Assets
- $32,719
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Danielle Hanosh (Executive Director/Co-Founder)
People named in this filing
- Danielle Hanosh (Executive Director/Co-Founder)
- Corinne Kaelin (Board Member)
- Eric St Peter (Board Member)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary purpose is to provide rescue services, medical care, and permanent sanctuary to animals rescued from abuse, neglect, abandonment, and the slaughter pipeline and to offer public education and advocacy on their behalf. We offer a home to animals not accepted at traditional animal shelters and make sure their needs are met for the remainder of their natural lives including nutritious food, safe shelters, warm bedding, enrichment, socialization, and a peaceful habitat. We educate humans about the impacts of a plant-based diet to help not only the animals, but to reduce climate change, increase food security among vulnerable populations, increase biodiversity, and improve human health. We offer leadership programs for teenagers, volunteer programs for individuals with disabilities, and of course, the chance for humans and non humans to connect in a healing environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Animal Rescue and Care: The sanctuary's primary program is to provide services for animals in need including but not limited to: rescue, transportation, medical care, and permanent sanctuary including meeting all of their needs (food, bedding, housing/infrastructure, veterinary care, enrichment, behavioral and physical challenges, medication, safety and daily care) for the entire duration of their natural lives. This makes up the bulk of our program expenses as it includes everything related to the care of our permanent animal residents as well as foster care and placement referral services for animals in need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
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: 7.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -26.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.5% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.