White Bird Appaloosa Horse Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161650231
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Burkeville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4347672839
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,087
- Expenses
- $89,011
- Assets
- $69,211
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jorg Huckabee-Mayfield (President)
- Thomas Mayfield (Vice President and CFO)
People named in this filing
- Jorg Huckabee-Mayfield (President)
- Thomas Mayfield (Vice President and CFO)
- Patricia Mayton (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The White Bird Appaloosa Horse Rescue Rescues, Rehabilitates and Rehomes at risk Appaloosa and other horses. Horses that cannot be adopted are provided permanent sanctuary. The rescue provides community support to those families unable to continue caring for their horses, interacts with local Animal Control officers, and conducts outreach and educational sessions for volunteers and supporters.
What it reported doing in 2024
Equine Rehabilitation: Includes veterinary care, farrier work, medical supplementation and health care items. Rescue horses arrive in a variety of conditions - elderly, starved, unsound, and with a range of medical problems. In 2024 the rescue continued to care for the remaining 3 of the 2014 unhandled horses, and provide long term care for sanctuary horses, as well as taking in new horses from a variety of sources. The expenses show a rise of 20% for this service compared to 2022, and puts it ahead of Hay and Feed as the most expensive item. Medicine and veterinary costs have once again risen, with a greater proportion of emergency call outs experienced. The rescue has worked with its veterinary to use generic drugs wherever possible. The total includes rehabilitative care and end of life euthanasia when necessary.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $277.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.1%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.