The Horse Sanctuary Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921625171
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Germantown, NY, USA
Phone
5183032747
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$125,234
Expenses
$125,079
Assets
$29,114
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GENETTE PICICCI (PRESIDENT)
  • ANN MARGARET O'BRIEN (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • EMILY JOHNSTON (DIRECTOR)
  • GENETTE PICICCI (PRESIDENT)
  • JOSEPH TOMEO (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The horse sanctuary, inc. Provides a safe and peaceful home for horses in need. Through interaction and engagement with our community, we will raise awareness on the wellbeing of horses and educate humans on what they can do to help other equines.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2024, we successfully met the nutritional, medical and emotional needs of our horses. Daily they receive free choice hay, grain, clean water, clean stalls and paddocks. Our veterinarian provides them with regular vaccinations, deworming, dental checks and dental floats. Our natural hoof care specialist provides regular hoof trimmings. Our sensitive or reactive rescues continue to work weekly with our natural horsemanship trainer on basic groundwork and manners. We welcomed to our herd: peaches, a 4-year-old american quarter horse filly with debilitating arthritis in both hind stifles; blackjack, a senior amish cart pony with equine cushing's disease and olive, a 6-year-old off-the-track thoroughbred who is also a cribber. Olive was not thriving in her first home off of the racetrack so the horse sanctuary stepped in to offer her a low-stress home where should could gain weight and confidence. In 2025, we plan to host 1-2 open houses to showcase our rescues and share the stories each has with the local community. We hope to expand our paddocks and give our rescues more room to run and graze. We hope to expand the sale of the horse sanctuary's garden rescue soil fundraiser to local nurseries. And finally, we resolve to continue our lifesaving work as an animal-welfare nonprofit and grow our fundraising efforts to help more at-risk horses.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

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: 0.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 22; 22nd 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: -51.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.