Sheared Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Silk screening + workshop: healing tree's 'silk' screening + workshop explores the hardest to spot red flags of abuse and trauma. This program centers around a screening of our short film 'silk', which was an official selection at an academy award qualifying festival, was directed by john magaro ('past lives', 'carol', 'the big short') and stars mainstream talent. 'silk' follows a gifted aerialist who struggles to recognize she's being gaslit by her new boyfriend. The accompanying workshop dives deeper into what was illustrated on screen. A powerpoint presentation explores red flags of psychological abuse - including gaslighting, love bombing, blame shifting, projection and stonewalling - as well as unexpected ways trauma impacts the brain and body. We also cover tools for effective intervention and healing. Additionally, we lead participants through grounding exercises before and after the film and end with a q&a. Surveys show a significant increase in survivor and perpetrator self-identification and a commitment to using healing tree's resources to get effective treatment. As of december 2025, healing tree has sponsored over 800 participants including students, domestic violence and addiction treatment center staff and clients, foster care agency staff, military, family court lawyers and judges and more to receive this workshop.approved care network: healing tree provides a free, nationwide directory of trauma-focused mental health providers. We work to connect individuals with professionals who are brain-body based trauma experts and who also fit their unique needs. This could include being a therapist of color, a queer therapist or a faith-based therapist, as well as one who takes their insurance or offers sliding scale. We include providers trained in various, leading, brain-body based modalities, including eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr) therapy, somatic experiencing (se), sensorimotor psychotherapy, brainspotting (bsp) and internal family systems (ifs). Our team personally vets them with phone interviews and we file their certificates in these modalities. Our acn also includes treatment facilities, creative arts therapists and more. As of 2024 (this program is on pause due to lack of funding), healing tree has approved providers in 40 of the united states.brainspotting therapy training: brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, dissociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Thanks to the generosity of susan pinco, mssw, phd, bcd and deb antinori, ma, lpc, ft, rdt, as well as regina guthrie faridnia, phd, lcsw, healing tree is able to offer bipoc and lgbtqia+ clinician scholarships for phase i and ii of online brainspotting therapy training. As of december 2025, healing tree has provided scholarships to 117 bipoc and lgbtqia+ clinicians, serving approximately 5,850 clients per year, the majority being from these communities themselves.for arts professionals: from trauma consulting for theatre/film scripts and arts organizations, to fiscal sponsorships for aligned projects, to partnerships that provide our resources to your audiences we help artists depict and deal with mental illness, abuse and addiction with accuracy, care and impact. As of december 2025, we have provided fiscal sponsorships, trauma consulting & partnerships for 22 plays, musicals, films and arts organizations including partnering with the feature film 'mass' (sundance, theatrical release, bafta nominee.)trauma consulting: healing tree offers trauma consulting for arts professionals and organizations. Our diverse roster of trauma experts can work with you to ensure that the film, television show, play or musical you are developing depicts issues of mental illness, abuse, addiction and related topics in an accurate and trauma-informed way. They can also collaborate with your organization to ensure

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: $8.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 26th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: -38.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings