Steadfast Steeds

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272186949
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Grand Junction, CO, USA
Phone
9702410939
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$43,537
Expenses
$43,029
Assets
$34,707
Liabilities
$39,892

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TRACY SCOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • TRACY SCOTT (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • TRACY SCOTT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • LYNETTE PERKOWITZ (DIRECTOR)
  • SARA SANFORD (SECETARY)

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

Prevention of cruelty to animals

What it reported doing in 2025

Guidance to families and human/animal services staff providing support by utilizing wild horse behaviors and social systems interations, including trainings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 79% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.6%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 60.3%; rating input score 60

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.15; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -20.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.4% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.6% of revenue deployed · 60.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $26K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.