Illinois Equine Humane Center Nfp

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263120493
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Maple Park, IL, USA
Phone
7792766836
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal-Related N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$189,773
Expenses
$142,518
Assets
$146,171
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sarah Mowat (President)

People named in this filing

  • Sarah Mowat (President)
  • Justine Dover (Secretary/Treasurer)
  • Gail Vacca (Officer/Founder)

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

Equine rescue from physical abuse, starvation, or owner relinquishment. ILEHC provides shelter, pasture, feed, hay, medical, dental, transportation particularly with getting a new rescue from quarantine to our facility, farrier treatments and services. Horses are rehabilitated when possible and placed with an adoptive home or live their days with the rescue herd and human caretakers. ILEHC also educates the community on equine welfare.

What it reported doing in 2025

Equine rescue from physical abuse or starvation. ILEHC provides shelter, pasture, feed, medical, dental, farrier treatments and services. Horses are rehabilitated when possible and placed with an adoptive owner. Those not eligible remain as ILEHC sanctuary horses. Illinois Equine Humane Center also provides equine welfare information to the community and any inquires received to our email or by phone.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% 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. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.4%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 24.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $143K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.