Inspired Acres Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Adaptive riding is recreational horseback riding lessons for individuals with special needs. Riders learn horsemanship and riding skills in an environment tailored to their individual needs and learning styles. We offer instruction to riders of all skill levels, from providing someone's first contact with a horse to advanced independent riders. The goals for those in the adaptive riding program are riding-skill based, but individuals and parents often report many therapeutic benefits of participation. These benefits include improvements in physical strength, balance, coordination, mobility, self-confidence, self-control, peer interaction, and social skills. Adaptive riding lessons are taught by path international certified instructors who create a wide variety of games and exercises designed to meet each student's needs. Lesson plans consider the rider's physical, emotional, and mental strengths and limitations. Classes include arena riding, trail rides, and group activities. With the combination of a trusted horse, instructor, and group of volunteers, riders become more willing to try new things and attain new goals. A horse's soothing rhythm, strength, warmth, and three-dimensional movement pattern provide healthy exercise while improving circulation and muscle tone. The discipline associated with working with horses and the social interactions between peers benefit the mind and spirit while raising self-esteem and increasing self-sufficiency through accomplishment. The unconditional love of the horses has proved to reduce anxiety, encourage interaction, and offer a haven where riders can feel a sense of empowerment.carriage driving is a challenging equine activity that is available to individuals who may not want to or are unable to ride. Carriage driving is an opportunity to create a working relationship and dialogue with a horse. Some disabilities affect an individual's ability to sit astride a horse, so the security of the seat in the carriage allows for equine skills to be developed. Some individuals have gravitational insecurities that limit their desire to ride a horse. Other individuals enjoy the challenge of maneuvering the horse and carriage through a variety of different obstacles. All these challenges can be overcome in a carriage driving lesson. The benefits of carriage driving include improvements in balance, posture, coordination, and emotional well-being. Carriage driving provides a recreational and sporting experience with a horse as well as a mental challenge like that of riding. Driving yields the challenge of working in harmony with a horse and learning an equine skill step by step. In addition, there are physical benefits from carriage driving, such as: increased core strength, improvements in balance, and fine and gross motor coordination. Carriage driving encourages the development of self-confidence and empowers individuals to make choices and demonstrate a relationship with the horse as various maneuvers are learned. It can improve the cognitive skills of sequencing, following directions and differentiating between left and right, etc. Driving is another venue for socializing with other participants, the volunteers, and instructors, and of course, the horse. It offers another opportunity for developing relationships, equine and human, of mutual respect and trust. Carriage driving serves a variety of people with varying degrees of disabilities and challenges.equine-facilitated learning is an experiential learning approach that promotes the development of life skills for educational, professional, and personal goals through equine-assisted activities. This experiential approach integrates horse-human interaction that is guided by a planned learning experience to meet the identified goals or desires of the participant(s). Simply put, efl is where we take individuals who want to help improve their life skills out to work with the horses. Through working with horses and through this process of building re

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -25.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings