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BIG RED BARN RETREAT

EIN 47-1047721 BLYTHEWOOD, SC

Revenue 2025
$2,213,780
Expenses 2025
$2,046,706

Program services were 86.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1200
Street
8024 WINNSBORO RD

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 · 2025

Mission

PROVIDES PROGRAMS, SERVICES AND TRAINING BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH FOR THE MILITARY AND FIRST RESPONDER COMMUNITIES SO THEY CAN THRIVE AND LIVE THE LIFE THEY DESIRE.

  • Warrior PATHH: This flagship program is a comprehensive 90-day journey that starts with a 5 day intensive session that is hosted on site. The program is a peer-to-peer adult experiential learning program. The indoor and outdoor model of training is designed to facilitate post traumatic growth, helping participants transform struggles into profound strength after experiencing traumas throughout life. The small group all male or all female cohorts produce up to 150 graduates annually.

    Expenses $1,089,589

  • Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) and Equine Assisted Learning (EAL): These services utilize the healing power of horses to aid in emotional healing and personal development. EAP provides structured therapy sessions involving horses, while EAL focuses on experiential learning, enabling participants to build trust, self-awareness, and communication skills.

    Expenses $248,841

  • Struggle Well: This program is a preventive, culture impacting training program for first responders, active duty military, guard and reserves, with collaborative training provided to community supporters, corporate investors, state and local leadership and employees. Training focus is on awareness and skill building in PTG concepts and principals through 1, 2 or 5 day training sessions. Training is flexible and deliverable to organizations seeking to create and cultivate culture of metabolizing stress in healthy ways.

    Expenses $134,106

  • Other Programs

    Expenses $108,827 · Revenue $36,979

  • Gardening: Engaging in gardening at the retreat provides a therapeutic and nurturing experience. Participants can connect with nature, experience the joy of growing food that will feed future classes, and find solace in the serenity of the garden.

    Expenses $67,345

  • Healing Art, Yoga & Tai Chi: The Big Red Barn Retreat offers a range of holistic practices to promote emotional and physical well-being. Through healing art, yoga, and tai chi, Veterans and First Responders can explore creative expression and find relaxation, balance, and mindfulness in a welcoming environment.

    Expenses $59,430

  • Meditation and Transcendental Meditation: Meditation practices are available to help individuals reduce stress, enhance mental clarity, and cultivate inner peace. Transcendental Meditation is a specific technique offered to help Veterans and First Responders experience profound relaxation and personal growth.

    Expenses $56,143

  • Farm to Table Cooking Classes: Participants can learn about healthy nutrition and culinary skills through farm-to-table cooking classes. This service promotes self-sufficiency and empowers Veterans and First Responders to make wholesome food choices.

    Expenses $961 · Revenue $218,859

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • L Sutton Shaw

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Richard Butcher

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Judi Gatson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mitchell Ray

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Barbara Irons

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • David Kerr

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • James Smith

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Gretchen Barron

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Dan Stanton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Katrina Shealy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Heather Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Brandon Cox

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mitchell Ray

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,213,780
    Expenses
    $2,046,706
    Contributions
    $1,799,134
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,465,924
    Expenses
    $2,279,623
    Contributions
    $1,838,288
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,064,609
    Expenses
    $1,592,357
    Contributions
    $1,694,170
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,853,660
    Expenses
    $1,086,375
    Contributions
    $1,797,353
    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
    $1,235,313
    Expenses
    $733,154
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,359,858

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $853,050
    Expenses
    $396,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $857,699

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $359,440
    Expenses
    $195,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $401,358

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $233,441
    Expenses
    $107,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $237,423

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $122,700
    Expenses
    $89,987
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,121

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $101,710
    Expenses
    $62,056
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,408

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $77,113
    Expenses
    $40,237
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,754

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $13,506
    Expenses
    $11,628
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,878

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.

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.