The Barn for Equine Learning

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473023933
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Lowell, MI, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Counseling, Support Groups

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$160,428
Expenses
$130,493
Assets
$149,508
Liabilities
$2,125

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHANA TUNDEVOLD LMSW EAGALA (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • KATHRYN HEGGEN LLMSW EAGALA (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • AMY VISSMAN (DIRECTOR/TREASURER)
  • TAYLOR BRADLEY (DIRECTOR/SECRETARY)
  • SHANA TUNDEVOLD LMSW EAGALA (VICE PRESIDENT)

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

Public charity

What it reported doing in 2025

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy - Participants typically at-risk youth, or children in the foster care system engage in equine activities in order to address therapeutic goals 615 annual participants.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: 18.7%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 26.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 79% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.