Owl House Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260356593
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Hailey, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2087881423
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $224,383
- Expenses
- $219,620
- Assets
- $78,525
- Liabilities
- $1,635
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAMELA PLOWMAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ASIA ALVEY (SECRETARY/TR)
- NATE KOLAR (DIRECTOR)
- TENAYA KOLAR (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We intend to create a world, (through modeling and grassroots worldwide dissemination of our model) in which emotional and social education (ease) is available free to every child on the planet, from birth to elementary school, as a matter of routine, enlightened preparation for a happy and healthy life. Owl house children's sanctuary provides clearinghouse and educational support for the grassroots emergence of owl houses the world over, where children from birth to grade school (the crucial early years of brain development) receive focused emotional and social education (ease), imbedded in the experience of free play in nature and natural surroundings, the combination of which is an essential foundation for life in a peaceful and free society.
What it reported doing in 2025
Owl house childrens sanctuary provides high-quality, play-based childcare to families in the wood river valley, Idaho. We offer a safe, enriching environment where children ages 13 months to 5 years grow and thrive through free play, responsive caregiving, and wholesome nutrition. All meals and snacks are prepared on-site using organic or non-gmo ingredients. In 2025, 19 children were enrolled, both part in our screen-free program, attending both part- and full-time. Our work emphasizes kindness, cooperation, and autonomy, supporting healthy social and emotional development in early childhood. Owl house serves both as a model and resource for families and educators committed to raising children in a peaceful, respectful, and thriving community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 2.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $190K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.