Rapidan Equine Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 331954945
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Fredericksburg, VA, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,489
- Expenses
- $71,813
- Assets
- $55,676
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paula Harkins (President)
- Kim Reid (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Paula Harkins (President)
- Kim Reid (Executive Director)
- Edward Sierra (Treasurer)
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
Rapidan Equine Sanctuarys primary exempt purpose is to provide rescue rehabilitation lifelong sanctuary and responsible rehoming of equines that have been neglected abused abandoned seized or are otherwise at risk. The organization operates exclusively for charitable and educational purposes by ensuring humane care promoting equine welfare and educating the public about responsible equine ownership and end-of-life care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Rapidan Equine Sanctuarys primary program service is the rescue rehabilitation and long-term care of at-risk equines. During the reporting year RES provided direct care to 16 equines originating from neglect abuse seizure situations former racing operations and other unsafe or unsustainable environments. Services included emergency intake veterinary care farrier services nutritional rehabilitation behavioral assessment and daily husbandry. Of the equines served one was successfully rehabilitated and re-homed while two received humane end-of-life care due to age or medical condition. This program represents the organizations largest program service expense and directly advances its charitable mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.2%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 65.7%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.7%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.2% of revenue deployed · 65.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.