Horse Plus Humane Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201156396
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Hohenwald, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8888474707
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,393,359
- Expenses
- $2,341,511
- Assets
- $2,674,025
- Liabilities
- $371,366
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TAWNEE PREISNER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TAWNEE PREISNER (PRESIDENT): $97,642 total reported compensation
- ANGELA ARCHIBALD (SECRETARY): $63,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Horse plus humane society is the largest horse welfare organization in the united states, rescuing and sheltering more horses than any other horse welfare organization, based on the number of animals helped and adopted each year. We are an open admissions, full circle of life horse welfare organization and will never turn a horse away. Every year we help hundreds of horse trasition from a rough place in their life to a new start. Our wonderful team of veterinarians and horse trainers work with the horses to help them become happy, healthy and adoptable. Hourse plus humane society has many programs to help horses and their owners thoughout the united states.
What it reported doing in 2025
Rescue, shelter and adopt into loving homes from slaughter pipeline auctions, preventing the horses from being shipped out of the country for slaughter. Also accept owner surrenders, law enforcement seizures, abandoned horses and shelter transfer horses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.2%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.66 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.2% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.