PAWS FOR REFLECTION RANCH

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D20

Classification

1000

Street

5431 MONTGOMERY RD

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Mission and programs · 2024

• Counseling programs include Animal-Assisted Counseling (AAC), Equine-Assisted Counseling (EAC), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Traditional Counseling, and Animal/Equine Assisted Play Therapy. Therapists partner with 35 Ranch animals to meet weekly for 60 minute individual or group counseling sessions. Clients as young as 3 years of age begin in our Play Therapy program. Through the child's natural language of play, the counselor can reflect back to the child and better understand the emotions and concerns of the child. The counselor is able to work with the parent(s) and child to improve their relationship. Through interaction with the animals, the child learns empathy, regulation of emotions, anger management, and coping skills. The child builds confidence and self-esteem and learns how to better communicate at school and at home. In group Play Therapy, children learn how to play together, communicate with one another, and how to compromise and be flexible. As the child moves away from the world of toys, therapists may incorporate activities with the miniature horses, miniature donkey, goats and other barn animals. Activities are designed to encourage sharing of emotions and to reach therapy goals. In 2024, the Ranch added one LPC-S and 2 Master's level interns to our counseling team. Interns are helping to alleviate the wait list we often experience for Play Therapy. Teens typically participate in Equine Assisted Counseling. As the teen builds a relationship with a horse, they work on activities designed to focus on their therapy goals, improving their confidence and self-esteem as they experience the unconditional love of their horse. With immediate feedback from the horse, the client is able to try new behaviors, change communication styles, and be aware of how body language speaks volumes. Adult clients also typically choose Equine Assisted Counseling. Through building a relationship with their horse, the client learns how to build healthy relationships, try out different communication styles and behaviors, learn coping skills, manage anger and frustration, and more. Activities are designed to assist the client to accomplish their therapy goals as they learn new skills and bond with their horse. In Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, the client is able to train their brain to act in a more neutral manner when exposed to certain triggers that currently produce a dramatic response. Our counselors are trained to utilize this therapy with children, teens, adults, and Veterans. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy is trauma focused and shows positive results in the treatment of PTSD, moral injury, nightmares, trauma, abuse, pain, eating disorders, etc. Clients report experiencing results quickly. Many of our clients merge Equine Assisted Counseling and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy together. Counseling clients include youth-at-risk, children, adults, families, Veterans and their dependents, people with special needs, and others who seek counseling. In 2024, 29 unique clients were seen for Equine Assisted Counseling. These clients participated in approximately 500 sessions. There were 64 unique clients seen for Animal Assisted Counseling for 510 sessions. There were 19 unique Play Therapy clients resulting in approximately 305 sessions of Play Therapy. Traditional counseling clients numbered 12 with 192 sessions. Family/Couples numbered 47 with 752 sessions. There were also 10 clients treated via Telehealth with 162 sessions online. Expenses include Independent Contractor fees, training, and supply costs. Cost of facility and the expenses surrounding the care and feeding of all therapy animals have not been included in these program expenses.

  Expenses $177,703 · Grants $118,740 · Revenue $234,668

• We offer individual and group Therapeutic Horseback Riding Lessons and individual and group Therapeutic Horsemanship Group Therapies Monday through Friday year around. We provided approximately 20,000 therapeutic riding sessions for 127 unique clients in 2024. Some clients have been riding weekly with us for 8+ years, while others may choose to ride weekly for a few months. We have 3 PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship) Therapeutic Riding Instructors and 2 Therapeutic Riding Instructors working toward PATH certification. Typically once weekly, lessons may be 30 minutes or 60 minutes in length, individual or group. Clients, ages 4 to adult, include those with special needs, ie. Autism, Down syndrome, physical limitations, and mental health challenges. We also offer riding for Veterans. Riders progress weekly, some needing horse leaders and side walkers for safety, progressing to be more independent. During 60 minute lessons, the rider learns how to retrieve the horse from the pasture and tack up, with the help of volunteers and/or the instructor. Some riders participate in games and activities while riding, working on basic riding skills. Instructors tailor their lessons to help with skills being learned at home and at school. Riding sessions may be held in the covered arena, on the Sensory Trail which is specially designed for the rider to interact with most senses, and on the other Nature Trails. Our herd of 16 horses provides the necessary variety of horse sizes and shapes to match to the rider's abilities. The rider may change to other horses as their riding abilities progress. We continue to partner with Hope Kids of NE Texas for weekly riding and events. This organization offers events and activities for families who have a child with a potentially terminal illness. We offer one hour of weekly riding for their group who sign up on a first come, first serve basis. Our Therapeutic Horsemanship Programs for individuals and groups served 40 clients in 2024. Expenses for the therapeutic riding and horsemanship program include Independent Contractor fees and supply expenses. Horse expenses have not been included in the expenses.

  Expenses $161,388 · Grants $51,812 · Revenue $217,058

• Our third largest program expense would be the cost of feeding, training, and healthcare of our therapy animal partners. There are 16 full size horses, 2 miniature horses, 2 miniature donkeys, 2 miniature pot bellied pigs, 3 goats, 4 rabbits, 3 chinchillas, 2 hedgehogs, 1 ferret, 2 dogs, 3 cats and 1 Russian tortoise. All of our programs and services incorporate the utilization of these therapy animals. Our animal partners are such an important part of our services and help us to realize amazing results and outcomes for our clients. They provide the unconditional love, focus or distraction needed at just the right time to complement the work of our professional counseling and therapist team. Clients young and old enjoy relationships with our therapy animals that creates a calming and relaxing environment for healing. Compared to traditional counseling in a traditional office setting, many children and adults are eager to return and hate to leave the peaceful ranch setting. No revenue is included in this section because it is including in the above Counseling and Therapeutic Riding and Horsemanship Service Accomplishments.

  Expenses $98,834

• Grant scholarships awarded.

  Expenses $163,518 · Grants $163,518

• Volunteering and Educational Programs - Volunteers are certainly a blessing to the ranch but this comes with expenses of course. The majority of the expense is to the part-time contract position of Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator. in 2024 we had 230 volunteers that were given tours, trained, placed into appropriate jobs and scheduled. This position also represents the ranch at marketing and outreach events to recruit new volunteers and market our services to citizens and organizations. Expenses are limited to direct supplies and Independent Contractor fees. $1,500 of this expense is for Volunteer Appreciation, t-shirts, snacks, beverages.

  Expenses $7,406

• Community Service Events - In lieu of advertising, we choose to be active within the community, both hosting and participating in public events. We host three free events for the community annually: Santa at the Ranch, Easter at the Ranch, both for Families with Special Needs. We also host our annual Ranch Riders Horse Show where our riding clients can show off their riding skills to family and friends. Santa at the Ranch 2024 had ___ guests. We had ___ guests for Easter at the Ranch and ___ guests for the Ranch Riders Horse Show. We solicit donations of door prizes, game prizes, refreshments, and craft supplies for Santa at the Ranch. We request donations of toy filled Easter eggs, refreshments, and door prizes for Easter at the Ranch. The majority of this expense is to provide riders and staff with Horse Show Event T-shirts. Refreshments and horse show equipment make up the remaining expense. We have been holding these events for more than 15 years, growing each year. Special needs families enjoy our events as they know they are welcome and will not be judged. The Ranch is a safe environment for them to interact with their special needs loved ones, enjoying a family event like those families not having a special needs child do. There is plenty of outdoor space to provide a private area in which to recover from melt-downs, have quiet time, and to help their child enjoy the day. In 2020, due to Covid, we redefined our Easter and Santa at the Ranch Community Events into Drive-Thru events with 15 stations for cars to stop at and children would receive arts and crafts, refreshments, treats, and filled Easter Eggs from volunteers with masks and grabbers to maintain social distancing. One car and family at a time they could get out of their cars and take a photo with Santa or the Easter Bunny. We hosted approximately 50 cars and 150 children at each event. In a normal year, we host holiday events for groups such as the Bikers Against Child Abuse. They do not pay to use the facility and interact with the animals, but do bring along their own supplies. The Ranch is also a site for other support groups such as Families with Sturge Weber Syndrome, providing a central place for these families to meet and visit with one another. Visitors come from all over Texas and even other states to participate in these group activities. Another group for whom we host two annual family days is Hope Kids of NE Texas. The Ranch provides a setting where both parents can enjoy the day, benefiting from a reprieve of daily duties. Guests can compare resources and learn from each other. This is also an opportunity for the families to research the Ranch services and see what therapies interest them and are the most beneficial.

  Expenses $6,184

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.

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

  $861,750

  Expenses

  $859,391

  Contributions

  $357,293

  Grants paid

  $170,553

• 2023

  Revenue

  $702,179

  Expenses

  $700,602

  Contributions

  $202,247

  Grants paid

  $59,568

• 2022

  Revenue

  $619,041

  Expenses

  $597,879

  Contributions

  $214,906

  Grants paid

  $70,000

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

  $521,962

  Expenses

  $490,802

  Assets (EOY)

  $100,887

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $431,921

  Expenses

  $384,468

  Assets (EOY)

  $57,180

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $469,331

  Expenses

  $453,325

  Assets (EOY)

  $59,555

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $396,742

  Expenses

  $379,706

  Assets (EOY)

  $45,567

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $217,097

  Expenses

  $212,482

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,046

• 2016 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $172,345

  Expenses

  $185,153

  Assets (EOY)

  $22,557

• 2015 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $179,174

  Expenses

  $177,453

  Assets (EOY)

  $32,877

• 2014 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $141,551

  Expenses

  $126,097

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,024

• 2013 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $78,059

  Expenses

  $76,491

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,151

• 2012 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $53,540

  Expenses

  $52,348

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,583

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period

1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011

Principal officer

Melode Seremet

Mailing address

5431 Montgomery RoadMidlothian TX 76065

Website

www.pawsforreflectionranch.org

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

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $80,000

  2023 · CULTURE & ARTS

• COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

  $30,000

  2022 · THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• UNITED WAY OF WEST ELLIS COUNY INC

  $15,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• UNITED WAY OF WEST ELLIS COUNY INC

  $15,000

  2025 · General Support

• TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $7,140

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $7,123

  2024 · GENERAL OPERATIONS

• UNITED WAY OF WEST ELLIS COUNY INC

  $0

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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