Jack Pine Stables

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
371944363
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Akeley, MN, USA
Phone
2188200662
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$55,503
Expenses
$60,322
Assets
$204,592
Liabilities
$2,300

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Teri Gapinski (Board Chair)
  • Lori McNamara (Treasurer)
  • Sandy Munson (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Striving to empower individuals with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities and limitations through safe, fun Equine Assisted Services.

What it reported doing in 2025

A Therapeutic Horsemanship program providing horse riding lessons and grooming skills to individuals with special needs and at-risk youth. The program provided summer lessons to 48 riders with special needs and 19 at-risk youth weekly over the summer months. In addition, 28 riders and 8 horses participated in a competition hosted by Mountain Eagles at Rancho Tres Coronas in Brainerd in July. Programming also includes a day dedicated to collaborating with Wounded Warrior Project in offering veterans and family members a one hour horse riding experience. In 2025, 57 individuals participated in this activity. Five groups of youth, 23 total individuals, from the local public school special education attended sessions at Jack Pine Stables. The facility also hosted a 2-day program for 40 individuals in the MATS, Medication Assisted Treatment Services program. Twenty-nine church youth and 4 leaders enjoyed a day of learning more about the variety of equine assisted services and activities and the positive effects of the human/horse relationship.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 73.6%; rating input score 74

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.7%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.39; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 73.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.