Healing with Horses Ranch
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452792151
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Manor, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5129640360
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $690,222
- Expenses
- $695,738
- Assets
- $254,908
- Liabilities
- $38,556
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John DAndrea (Executive Director)
- Frida Heidewald (Board President)
- Austin Hankins (Board Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Arianna Roman (Program Director / CTRI): $43,280 total reported compensation
- Davina Merkel (Finance Manager / Equine Specialist): $39,360 total reported compensation
- Rebekah Fookes (Development Director / CTRI): $36,480 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Healing with Horses Ranch is a 501(c)(3) equine-facilitated therapy center that is on a mission to promote resilience and independence in mind, body, and soul through the power of the horse in people with disabilities, at-risk youth, and veterans. We want to change lives, not just touch lives by creating space for healthy relationships between horses and humans, we help students learn life skills in a safe, inclusive environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Healing with Horses Ranch continued to grow our program participation during 2025. Our volunteer workforce remained active in maintaining the horse herd and supporting clients, again logging more than 12000 hours. We continue to strive to train instructions and equine specialists. We are a hub for corporate volunteer work groups seeking team bonding experiences and in turn Healing with Horses Ranch received much needed help with facilities & property improvement projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $604K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $43K · 38 people listed
- Consistency: 44 of 44 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.