Promise Ranch Therapeutic Riding

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262431767
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
Parker, CO, USA
Phone
3038414043
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$603,645
Expenses
$550,923
Assets
$50,213
Liabilities
$231,046

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Suzanne Opp (President)
  • Jehn Jensen (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Bob Forbes (Director)
  • Michelle Portlock (Director)
  • Donna Wren (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

Equine-assisted therapeutic campus serving individuals with IDD, mental health conditions, physical disabilities, and trauma including veterans. Programs include hippotherapy, psychotherapy, adaptive Horsemanship and supported employment.

What it reported doing in 2025

Affinity Ranch provides equine-assisted therapeutic services at its Parker, Colorado campus, serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health conditions, physical disabilities, and trauma-related conditions including veterans and first responders. In 2025, the Organization served 535 individuals across six modalities: adaptive horsemanship; licensed hippotherapy (PT/OT/SLP); equine-assisted psychotherapy; pre-vocational training; job development; and supported employment. Licensed clinicians and partner organizations deliver services within the shared therapeutic environment. The Organization maintains 22 therapy horses across 37 acres. As of December 31, 2025, more than 200 individuals remained on the waitlist for services.

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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 71
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.4%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
  • 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: 8.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 4.6; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.4% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $442K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.