Refuge Ranch
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463367995
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Morongo Valley, CA, USA
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,215
- Expenses
- $148,414
- Assets
- $18,214
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan Miller (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Susan Miller (Executive Director)
- Russell Miller (Board Member)
- Amanda Sampson (Board Member)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a faith-based non profit large animal rescue sanctuary that provides a safe healing place for animals and people.We offer refuge for abused an neglected large animals and offer programs to the hurting and broken people in our community especially children.
What it reported doing in 2024
As part of our community outreach we invite hurting people from our community to participate in sessions with our animals to interact with them in order to bring healing.We continued to offer these services this year especially to children in foster care and group homes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 94.3%; rating input score 94
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: 0.5%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th 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: 25.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.8% of revenue deployed · 94.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $140K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.