I Am Herd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473111624
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Kelly, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9107124823
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,103
- Expenses
- $169,033
- Assets
- $153,686
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mary Miller-Jordan (Founding President / CEO)
People named in this filing
- Mary Miller-Jordan (Founding President / CEO)
- Mike Jordan (Grounds Manager)
- Lauren Sarlya (Chairwoman of the 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
Charitable organization
What it reported doing in 2025
Mustang Mentorship and Meditation (M3) Program: Gentle Mustang horses and rescued ponies are brought to the backyards of schools, offering I AM HERD wellness programs to create a space of peace and support for struggling students. The herd supported 340 students through M3 programs this year. Animal Assisted Wellness Programs assisted over 3200 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 44.6%; rating input score 45
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: 3.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.4%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43% of revenue deployed · 44.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $75K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.