Four Winds Connections
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933392835
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Randolph, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5076490745
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Other Services - Specialty Animals
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,000
- Expenses
- $95,437
- Assets
- $77,370
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stacy Bridavsky (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Stacy Bridavsky (Board President)
- Michaela Baltasar-Feyen (Board Treasurer)
- Cassandra Holmes (Board 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
Four Winds Connections lives and loves radically at the intersection of human and animal well-being. We work within communities, support change and invite healing through the human-animal bond. Four Winds Connections preserves the human-animal bond through financial assistance for veterinary care for the pets of marginalized communities; tribal partnerships and an annual Indigenous Animal Health and Wellbeing Gathering; pet food support; and temporary homes and volunteer foster training for the pets of victim-survivors of domestic violence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Four Winds Pet Pantry - Addresses the need for pet ownership among rural low-income families to be more affordable and accessible through free pet food and essential equipment
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.7%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
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: 23%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.2% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.7% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.