The Ranches
Legal name: New Mexico Boys & Girls Ranch Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850328251
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, United States
- Phone
- (505) 881-3363
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $318,371
- Expenses
- $656,201
- Assets
- $6,987,505
- Liabilities
- $216,776
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKELA KULL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MIKELA KULL (PRESIDENT): $67,202 total reported compensation
- DAWN GOODRUM (CONTROLLER): $65,389 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide services for young people and families for a brighter tomorrow. The Mission Statement for The Ranches is, “Rekindling Hope in At Risk Youth.” When combined with the purpose statement, “To provide services for young people and families in pursuit of a brighter tomorrow,” a truth emerges: the power of hope to transform lives. Our Mission statement not only defines what we do, but the difference we want to make. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” As a Christian organization we know the importance of good values, including hope. However, such values are useless unless they also become important to the individual young people who u.
What it reported doing in 2024
Support the New Mexico boys and girls ranches, inc. For education and care of children.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 24.4%; rating input score 24
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -106.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.65; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -39.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -35.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 24.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $160K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Program expense ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.