Sage to Saddle Ltd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833593089
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Pine Ridge, SD, USA
- Phone
- 3102663372
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,961
- Expenses
- $127,190
- Assets
- $45,536
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nathan Bressler (President)
People named in this filing
- Nathan Bressler (President)
- Stanley Brewer Jr (Treasurer)
- William Brewer (Secretary)
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
To provide equine therapy to at-risk children and teenagers on native american indian reservations
What it reported doing in 2024
Sage to Saddle provides an indoor horse riding arena and after-school program for children aged 8-18, focusing on equine relationships, horse care responsibilities, and the celebration and preservation of Native American heritage and culture. Through arena activities, homework assistance, and interactive classes guided by staff and volunteers well-versed in Lakota language and traditions, participants develop responsibility, focus, and a sense of pride while connecting with their rich heritage. The winter program runs for three months, supported by the arena and its 6 wranglers who assist in accommodating 15 students per session with two sessions daily during school weekdays. Over 75 students alternate days to ride with the program, with transportation and refreshments provided during the two-hour sessions. Approximately 60 children from reservations utilize the winter program as a respite from overcrowded living situations. Following the conclusion of the winter program, Sage to Saddle organizes three major group rides throughout the summer. These week-long events host up to 75 children per week who camp and ride over 120 miles per event. These extended rides offer participants a valuable opportunity to escape addiction issues prevalent on reservations while enjoying time with peers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
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: -98.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -23.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -88.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -82% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $118K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.