Cooper Ridge Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842630394
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Appling, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7063810880
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal-Related N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,612
- Expenses
- $86,870
- Assets
- $48,587
- Liabilities
- $1,660
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Josephine Fuller (Founder & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Josephine Fuller (Founder & CEO)
- Justin Fuller (COO)
- Donald Fuller (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
The Cooper Ridge Farm organization is dedicated to enriching the lives of individuals with intellectual, physical, and emotional disabilities through Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT).We believe in the power of the human-animal bond to connect, nurture, and heal people of all abilities. Through our customized, hands-on programs, participants engage in structured farm-based learning guided by certified professionals and enriched by meaningful interactions with our animal partners. Our approach provides a unique and effective way to work on traditional therapy goals (such as those in speech-language, physical, occupational, and applied behavioral therapies).We proudly offer an alternative to traditional brick-and-mortar therapy services to the CSRA. In addition we also offer employment opportunities to individuals with disabilities through various grant funding sources.
What it reported doing in 2025
Private Therapy Sessions - 903 private therapy sessions scheduled and 745 conducted due primarily to cancellations from weather impacts & client illness. Team of three paid session instructors varying pay with and average pay of $16/hr. Session are 90 min long, session instructors are paid 3 hours per session which includes time for planning, goal setting and documenting. 15-20 rotating volunteers including students from Augusta Universitys Physical, Occupational , and speech Therapy programs helped to execute each of the sessions alongside certified instructors in Animal-Assisted Therapy and Animal Assisted Interventions. This also expenses for programming materials and therapy tools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.5%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 50.6%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.5% of revenue deployed · 50.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.