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GERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC

EIN 59-3800477 W TOWNSHEND, VT

Largest nonprofits in Vermont

Revenue 2024
$433,829
Expenses 2024
$406,486

Program services were 93.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 1352

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION CONDUCTS PROGRAMS THAT 1) RESCUE AND REHABILITATE ANIMALS (PRIMARILITY HORSES), 2) PROMOTE AND FACILITATE ANIMAL ADOPTION, AND 3) OPERATE A FACILITY WHERE THE PROGRAM MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CONDUCT PROGRAMS THAT 1) RESCUE AND REHABILITATE ANIMALS (PRIMARILY HORSES), 2) PROMOTE AND FACILITATE ANIMAL ADOPTION AND 3) OPERATE A FACILITY WHERE THE PROGRAM MISSION IS ACCOMPLISHED.

  • Our mission is to primarily rescue horses that have run through auction only to be purchased by a kill buyer and will be sent on a horrific journey to Mexico to be slaughtered for human consumption outside the USA. These are the saddest, most hopeless group of horses you could ever imagine. Once they are in our care, we quarantine them for one month and begin to see what they are able to do, or not able to do any more. For those who survive we very carefully find safe loving homes. Homes are selected with the understanding that if they are no longer able to keep the horses adopted from us they must agree to return them to our rescue. The Organization also helps people local or otherwise who have horses that are unable to care for any longer by bringing them into our care and updating their medical needs and finding them homes as space allows; we rarely leave them with no options. We also educate the public by going into schools, hosting annual clinics, such as free castration, low fee dental clinics, and free winter blanket banks for people who are not able to afford these things for their horses. What is a labor of love, and we love making a small difference in this never-ending sea of unwanted horses, who through no fault of their own have become victims of this wretched slaughter pipeline. Our hopes are that one day this inhuman practice will be outlawed and a thing of the past and that our majestic horses may continue to serve man in harmony and respect.

    Expenses $381,724 · Grants $300 · Revenue $433,829

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gerda Palmbard Silver

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Robert A Silver

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Genoveva Holgiun-Kiger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ann Dudley Grady

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Hoit

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Christina Sawelsky

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diane Schneider

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $433,829
    Expenses
    $406,486
    Contributions
    $389,206
    Grants paid
    $300
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $442,673
    Expenses
    $455,712
    Contributions
    $394,906
    Grants paid
    $155
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $381,473
    Expenses
    $384,110
    Contributions
    $369,488
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $369,449
    Expenses
    $372,278
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,837

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $379,217
    Expenses
    $356,360
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,789

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $339,878
    Expenses
    $343,965
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,554

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $236,998
    Expenses
    $258,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,489

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $177,623
    Expenses
    $187,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,031

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $192,030
    Expenses
    $182,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,218

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $116,904
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,655

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
GerdaSilver
Mailing address
POBOX1352WTOWNSHEND VT 053591352

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.