Horses Encourage Adventure Leadership Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853545296
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Chaumont, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3157673523
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,586
- Expenses
- $31,759
- Assets
- $3,073
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ONDRAYA WALKER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ONDRAYA WALKER (PRESIDENT)
- ASHELY WARRNIER (TREASURER)
- MCKENZIE MURPHY (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
H.e.a.l, at lucky star ranch, is a nonprofit organization that provides healing, encouragement, adventure, and leadership. (h.e.a.l.) we pride ourselves on serving veterans, their families, and the community. We offer outdoor therapeutic environments for all ages.
What it reported doing in 2024
Equine assisted learning: fosters confidence and independence for those who participate. In this mostly non-riding program, participants learn individual responsibility, relationship, and communication skills and appreciate teamwork, selfdiscipline, and trust. Through their activities, they develop a sense of purpose as they help care for horses who care for veterans and their families. Participants learn and improve skills, such as: horse grooming leading recognizing horse body language and horse communication how to work around horses safely horse chores and so much more equine facilitated counseling in equine facilitated counseling, clients work with a licensed mental health professional, a certified equine specialist, and a therapy horse to accomplish personal goals supporting a treatment plan. All sessions are unmounted ground activities. The h.e.a.l counseling program is a wellness program that focuses on client strengths and the power of the human-horse connection to facilitate the healing process. Through efc, clients and their families can increase self- awareness and learn how their interactions affect others. Coupling the horses power with the power of therapy allows for rapid movement in reaching therapeutic goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 11; 11th 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: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.