Blue Barn Farm & Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833650099
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Creswell, OR, USA
- Phone
- 8476822286
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,323
- Expenses
- $44,656
- Assets
- $28,748
- Liabilities
- $600
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicole Jendro (President)
- Melissa Patricelli (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Victoria Wiley (Secretary)
- Jessica McLaws (Treasurer)
- Ayelette Robinson (Director)
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
Blue Barn Farm & Sanctuary is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Lane County, Oregon. We are dedicated to rescuing animals from neglect, abuse, and abandonment. Beyond providing these animals with a safe and loving environment, we foster meaningful connections between our rescued residents and the community, particularly young people. Our mission is to teach kindness, compassion, and empathy by connecting children-and all human beings-with our residents who have been rescued from lives of abuse, neglect, and abandonment. Through these connections, we aim to inspire a more compassionate world for animals and people alike. Humane Education, which teaches the connection between animals, human beings and our environment is our primary instrument utilized to fulfill our purpose. By hosting private & group tours, doing outreach with schools & libraries and running our Bunnies n Books program on site, we were able to reach approximately 505 children in 2025.
What it reported doing in 2025
Reading Buddies Club- 2025 launched our off site reading club at the Creswell Library. We visited twice a month with our outreach rabbit and hosted drop in children and families for an hour to encourage reading and kind connection with animals. We reached approximately 40 children at the library and logged about 10 hours. Bunnies n Books- We hosted weekly reading sessions at the farm for two hour time slots. Kids were given an introduction to the rabbits and encouraged to meet them where they were at as well as read selections from our sanctuary library. We reached approximately 81 children and their parents with this program and logged about 22 hrs. Virtual Service Project- We collaborated with 275 students at Irving Elementary which involved video lessons and participation in a service project that helped a fellow student as well as the environment. Students watched a video recorded at the farm, collected cans for the local redemption center and got a special thank you from the Blue Barn for their participation. Virtual Service Project- Six students coordinated a bake sale for the residents of the Blue Barn. They received a special video of the animals, discussing the sanctuary as a thank you. Tours- Various groups(camps, families & girl scout troops) toured the sanctuary, learning the residents' rescue stories and learned about the interconnected nature of humans, animals and our planet. (~66 youth). Community Outreach- We tabled at various events, reaching approximately 35-50 individuals of all ages. We passed out educational materials, engaged them in learning games and offered books from our reading program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 71.6%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.1% of revenue deployed · 71.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.