Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352056736
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Zionsville, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3177339393
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $689,692
- Expenses
- $277,337
- Assets
- $936,003
- Liabilities
- $142,842
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mike Trevillian (President)
- Sue Moore (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Elizabeth Ellis (Frmr Exe. Dire): $58,462 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Center is a Path International Premier Accredited Center that provides equine-assisted therapy services for those with physical, mental and emotional disabilities. Morning Dove's programs provide weekly therapeutic services to children and adults who live with disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder, Down's syndrome, post traumatic stress, mucular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, multiple schlerosis, brain injuries, learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders. Morning Dove's program are successful in improving and/or providing essential intervention necessary to improve the participant's muscle tone, balance, posture, mobility, coordination, motor functions and social development skills. Morning Dove has helped hundreds of participants through the years with its equine therapy programs. Morning Dove models the classic example of the strong, non-profit ethic of doing more with less. We have a strong track record of providing high quality therape
What it reported doing in 2024
Therapeutic Riding, also known as equine-assisted activites, is an adaptive, therapeutic and recreational riding activity which focuses on improving the well-being of individuls with disabilities. Through learning to ride, participants can address a variety of therapeutic outcomes, including cognitive, physical, emotional, social, educational and behaviorial goals. The ability to control a horse, as well as one's own body, inspires self-confidence, teaches responsibility, affirms trust and builds teamwork skills. From the beginning, riders learn balance and coordination while receiving therapeutic muscle stimulation. As a result of therapy sessions, physical attibutes such as posture, strength and flexibility are improved. Cognitive benefits are gained when participants gain self- assurance and poise and social skills are learned in the session through teamwork and communication. Morning Dove also supports hippotherapy sessions. Hippotherapy is a therapeutic treatment strategy designed to use the multi-dimensional movement and gait of a horse to treat people needing physical therapy, speech therapy or occupational therapy. Morning Dove provides facilities, equipment, horses and horse handlers for specially trained health professionas to treat these patients. The treatments improve abnormal muscle tone, improve balance, posture, mobility and coordination. They also heighten motor development and improve focus of particpants with attention/arousal deficiencies. People living with cerebral plasy, mulitple sclerosis, developmental delays or learning disabilities are examples of participants who benefit from hippotherapy sessons.Finally Morning Dove offers several equine assisted learning programs, including programs for at-risk youth, children with autism, workshops for scouts and other public service programs for school groups etc.Morning Dove also particpates in events at the Special Olympics and offers services for military veterans.Donated Use of Equine Operating Facilities in 2011.Morning Dove operates its therapeutic riding program from an equine facility in Zionsville, Indiana which is leased from a benefactor for $1 a year. No services or barter agreements were provided from Morning Dove to the benefactor in exchange for the donated use of the land and facilities at a below-market value.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.8%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.37; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $189K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.