Valley Penning Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204479174
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Santa Ynez, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8053502940
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Recreational l Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,960
- Expenses
- $103,071
- Assets
- $30,758
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GORDON STATLER (President)
People named in this filing
- GORDON STATLER (President)
- NAN FREEMAN (Treasurer)
- CHRISTIE LANNING (Secretary)
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 organization's exempt purpose is to educate the public regarding the sport of team penning, to provide events and competition for its members in the sport of team penning, and to foster and oversee amateur team penning and sorting competitions.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides team penning events and competitions for the benefit of its members as well as periodic social activities for members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 93.1%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96% of revenue deployed · 93.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.