Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454546052
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Sandy, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5033411102
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,358
- Expenses
- $132,234
- Assets
- $139,451
- Liabilities
- $371
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Vanderwater (Executive Director)
- Bonnie Shoffner (VP acting President)
People named in this filing
- Michael Vanderwater (Executive Director)
- Bonnie Shoffner (VP acting President)
- Sue Rohner (At large)
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
See Schedule O statement 5
What it reported doing in 2025
ECOLOGICAL WELL BEINGSee Schedule O statement 5
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 61.4%; rating input score 61
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: 12.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.2%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54% of revenue deployed · 61.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.