Spirit Keeper Equine Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464534803
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Yoder, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7193390312
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,000
- Expenses
- $136,757
- Assets
- $3,266
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Lori A Torrini (Director)
- James Barrentine (Barn Manager)
- Shelley Carbonara-Ramos (Executive 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Animal rescue, rehabilitation, and lifelong sanctuary care. Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary provides rescue, rehabilitation, and lifelong care for animals including horses, reptiles, dogs, and other species. The organization focuses on low-stress handling, cooperative care, and welfare-centered management. Activities include daily husbandry, veterinary coordination, habitat maintenance, and behavioral support. In 2025, the organization provided ongoing care for resident animals and responded to neglect cases requiring intake, rehabilitation, and long-term placement.
What it reported doing in 2025
Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary provided daily care, rehabilitation, and long-term housing for animals including horses, reptiles, dogs, and other species. Services included feeding, habitat maintenance, veterinary coordination, farrier care, behavioral support, and low-stress cooperative care practices. In April 2025, the organization responded to a large-scale neglect case involving the intake and ongoing rehabilitation of 67 snakes, requiring significant resources for veterinary care, housing, and long-term management. In October 2025 the organization worked with an equine owner who was dealing with a permanent health issue precluding her from caring for her special needs horse suffering from chronic lameness and other health issues. The organization maintains a focus on welfare-centered, individualized care for all animals.
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
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: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 2.3%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 97.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.