Simple Sparrow
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823616746
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Hutto, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5126423509
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $307,542
- Expenses
- $285,584
- Assets
- $120,084
- Liabilities
- $4,714
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Judy Holcomb (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Judy Holcomb (Executive Director): $50,000 total reported compensation
- Jamie Tanner (PresidentBoard Director Chair): $22,990 total reported compensation
- Liberty Smith (Care Farm Assistant): $9,271 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tauma-Informed Care Farming, Educational & Therapeutic Care
What it reported doing in 2025
Individual Services: Provide an environment for individuals to receive trauma-informed therapeutic care farm programs and services including office space for counseling, the use of the care farm for therapy, and financial scholarships for individual services. 2025: 1,775 therapeutic sessions, 15 partnering licensed professionals, & 26 community partners
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 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.6%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 47.4%; rating input score 47
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.6% of revenue deployed · 47.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $135K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.