Fixin Fences Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990949725
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Keymar, MD, USA
Phone
4108043682
Rating
61
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Military, Veterans' Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$49,750
Expenses
$28,937
Assets
$126,198

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN ALLISON (President)
  • PAGE ETZLER (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • JOHN ALLISON (President)
  • PAGE ETZLER (Vice President)
  • CAROLANN SHARPE (Secretary)

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 purpose of this organization is to offer u.s. Military veterans and their families the opportunity to experience re-integration in a healing environment such as farms, woodlands, gardens, equine facilites and similiar environments, to provide an opportunity for interaction with horses and other animals in a safe and calm environment, to provide an opportunity to experience farm activites, equine activities, hiking, and other similar outdoor activities, and to offer a healing and peaceful setting to aid in improving the spirituality and mental health and well-being of participants.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided u.s. Military veterans a place of healing through interactions with horses and other outdoor activities

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 99% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 29
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22.7%; rating input score 23
  • Program expense ratio: 38.8%; rating input score 39

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: 41.8%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.36; rating input score 81; 81st 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: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -84.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22.7% of revenue deployed · 38.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.