Carmel Valley Trail & Saddle Club Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
946043324
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Carmel Valley, CA, USA
Phone
5415395000
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Equestrian

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$79,583
Expenses
$108,321
Assets
$211,916
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUSAN BANCROFT (PRESIDENT)
  • DAWN POSTON (VICE PRESIDENT/MEMBERSHIP)

People named in this filing

  • MEGAN CARR (EVENTS COORDINATOR)
  • CATHY TRIFILO (EVENTS COORDINATOR)
  • KATIE MOON (DIRECTOR AT LARGE)

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

Provide equine education and maintain equine facility for the membership.

What it reported doing in 2025

Playdays - annual schooling shows organized in the spirit of the club's mission statement to "support equestrian activities of all kinds". All breeds, age and level of rider are welcome at these shows that judge the equitation, pleasure, trail course maneuvers, and game spirit of the entries. The atmosphere is fun and supportive and designed to give beginning riders exposure to showing their horses, or more advanced riders the opportunity to brush up in preparation for the show season.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -36.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.96; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.