Tender Little Hearts Mini Tales
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834236909
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4803183281
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,878
- Expenses
- $48,467
- Assets
- $236,510
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Theresa Holmes-Stecyk (President)
People named in this filing
- Theresa Holmes-Stecyk (President)
- Judy Taylor (Recording Secretary)
- Don Stecyk (Treasurer)
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
Literacy Promotion, Equine Assisted Learning, Equine Assisted Therapy, Equine Assisted Services. We provided equine assisted programs and therapy to 3500 children and 1400 adults in 2024. Vision: Tender Little Hearts was organized exclusively as an equine therapy outreach to children and adults. We aspire to create an environment where every horse is given a purpose to enrich a human life, bring joy and comfort, and leave every person with a reason to smile. Mission: The mission of Tender Little Hearts is to build productive relationships and make a positive impact in the lives of others, by inspiring hope and transformation through interactions with our equines. We are driven by a single goal - to do our part in making the world a better place.
What it reported doing in 2024
Only 1 grant was used for specific funding. The Kiwanis of Carefree grant is specific to cover the cost of our A-Z Activity Books. All of our grants, donations and facility donations were for the care of our miniature equines, the heart of our programs and assorted programing expenses, insurance, travel fuel expenses, van maintenance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50%; rating input score 50
- 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: 50%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.88; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.