2016-11-02T17:58:38-05:00 2015-12-31 810446334 DOUGLAS WILSON & COMPANY PC 1000 FIRST AVENUE SOUTH GREAT FALLS MT 59401 990 2015-01-01 201266410 MONTANA HORSE SANCTUARY INC MONT 4062645300 PO BOX 10 SIMMS MT 59477 JANE HEATH PRESIDENT 4062645300 2016-10-31 1 MYRA L BAKKE P00039909 4067614645 2015 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z JANE HEATH PO BOX 10 SIMMS MT 59477 126698 0 X www.montanahorsesanctuary.org X 2004 MT To provide Montana's in-crisis and abused horses with shelter, rehabilitation and placement in qualified, permanent homes. To provide Montana horse owners with education and assistance to help them better care for and work with their horses. 3 3 0 42 0 0 118709 121892 1680 1954 17 13 971 2839 121377 126698 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5355 79707 87768 79707 87768 41670 38930 1050405 1057212 367689 335566 682716 721646 X To provide Montana's in-crisis and abused horses with shelter, rehabilitation and placement in qualified, permanent homes. To provide Montana horse owners with education and assistance to help them better care for and work with their horses. 0 0 82413 4793 The Sanctuary continues to rescue, shelter and rehabilitate abused horses. Our focus has become more about horses confiscated from abuse situations than any other group. These are mostly the worst-case rehabilitation cases but this is where our work shines best. We love being able to bring a holistic approach to helping these deserving horses come from terrible health condition back to being happy, healthy and whole. And then we help them find forever homes where they can live out their lives. Without smaller, daily accomplishments, big accomplishments don't happen. All Sanctuary horse care is done by dedicated, loving volunteers. It is a huge accomplishment that unpaid workers feed and care for the horses every single day, no matter the weather. Similarly, all management of the Sanctuary ranch, adoption applications, public outreach, grant writing, fundraising, board membership and workshop planning is done by volunteers from across the state. The result is a wide-reaching organization benefitting many horses and their owners every year. Sanctuary places more horses in adoptive homes: Adoptions are always a reason to celebrate. Roxanne has found her forever home. She has settled in happily and quickly with a woman who is a 4-H horse leader and avid trail rider. Roxanne, always the social butterfly, loves the opportunities to meet 4-H members and their horses and get out on the trails with new horse and rider friends. She is even helping older 4-Hers learn to be better riders. Her adopter adores her! We thought that Madison would live out the remainder of her life here at the Sanctuary but she also has found a new home with a kind, retired veterinarian and another Sanctuary horse. A successful new pilot program: A forever home is the ultimate goal for most Sanctuary horses with the exception of those horses who are too deeply traumatized to be safe for an adopter. "Pasture pals" are horses who are healthy but either too elderly or otherwise physically unable to carry a rider. Like all horses, pasture pals deserve forever homes but are far less likely to be adopted; most adopters want saddle horses. However, we heard from experienced horse people who felt they had the time and experience for a pasture pal, but not the money to support one. We saw a possible match and found a solution. The Sanctuary began a "supported adoption" pilot program in 2015. The adopter gains full ownership of a pasture pal so is responsible for all of the horse's care and upkeep. The Sanctuary pays costs of care, reimbursing adopters for veterinary care, feed, farrier and other approved costs. Holly became our first supported adoptee. Her adopter is a single horse owner whose gelding was deeply lonely after losing his two, elderly pasture pal friends within 60 days of each other. The adopter is an experienced horse owner with a kind heart and horse-loving grandkids. The family fell in love with Holly. Jane Heath visits Holly and communicates with the adopter once a month in her Bitterroot Valley home. Holly is so content. In May we placed Madison in her forever, supported home. Her person adopted Penny several years ago. While at the Sanctuary, Penny and Madison were best pals. As she became older it was clear to us that Madison was less and less comfortable in a herd setting. Because of a serious injury as a youngster she has difficulty with one of her hind legs. Her adopter is a retired veterinarian who has other rescued animals: two sheep, a dwarf cow, a variety of adopted chickens and some cats and dogs. Madison reestablished her close friendship with Penny. The adopter tells us they are seldom more than 20 feet from each other! This new program shows promise. Both adopters have assumed some of the costs of care voluntarily and have been easy to work with. They have given us helpful feedback about the program. The most important aspect of this is two more horses are in forever homes when they would not otherwise be. 82413 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 X X JANE HEATH 4062645300 12990 HIGHWAY 200 SIMMS MT 59477 X JANE HEATH PRESIDENT 30.00 X X 0 0 0 BRENDA YORK VICE-PRESIDENT 2.00 X X 0 0 0 SHANNA CHISM SECRETARY 2.00 X X 0 0 0 VIC ANDERSEN TREASURER 30.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 121892 5994 121892 WORKSHOPS/MISC 900099 954 954 ADOPTION FEES 900099 800 800 RESTITUTION 900099 200 200 1954 13 13 2839 0 2839 2839 126698 4793 0 13 909 909 2669 2669 80 80 313 313 3938 3438 500 15096 15096 11306 11306 1161 1161 SHELTER & FEED 31349 31349 FUNDRAISING 4775 4775 WORKSHOPS/PROGRAMS 4667 4667 FUEL 3876 3876 7629 7549 80 87768 82413 0 5355 9950 11798 55105 38377 1188 1188 1068845 63091 983458 1005754 704 95 1050405 1057212 467 285 367222 335281 367689 335566 X 639087 678017 43629 43629 682716 721646 1050405 1057212 38930 0 X 0 0 0 X 187603 174608 110576 120389 123846 717022 1737 971 2839 5547 187603 174608 112313 121360 126685 722569 0 0 0 722569 17 13 30 17 13 30 187603 174608 112313 121377 126698 722599 1.00000 1.00000 0.00000 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 964733 964733 104112 63091 41021 1005754 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 2 Vic Andersen, Treasurer and Jane Heath, President are husband and wife. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11 The FORM 990 was made available for review and approval to the governing board by paper or electronic copy prior to being submitted and/or filed. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c Montana Horse Sanctuary monitors potential conflicts of interest by way of ongoing discussion of this issue at board meetings and during casual discussion among board members. The conflict of interest policy is enforced by the board during its meetings when board members need to recuse themselves from discussions or decisions. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 THE MONTANA HORSE SANCTUARY PROVIDES A PAPER/ELECTRONIC COPY OF ITS GOVERNING DOCUMENTS AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY UPON REQUEST. Form 990, Part VII JANE HEATH - PO BOX 157, SIMMS, MT 59477. BRENDA YORK - 20 ROBINS NEST LN, BELGRADE, MT 59714. SHANNA CHISM - 17 PALOMINO LN, SUN RIVER, MT 59483. VIC ANDERSEN - PO BOX 157, SIMMS, MT 59477.