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BARN SANCTUARY

EIN 81-2637884 CHELSEA, MI

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Revenue 2024
$1,962,359
Expenses 2024
$1,815,981

Program services were 73.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D20
Classification
1000
Street
20179 MCKERNAN 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 · 2024

Mission

RESCUE FARMED ANIMALS AND INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EMBRACE A PLANT-BASED LIFESTYLE.

  • RESCUE AND REHOME PROGRAM: BARN SANCTUARY WORKED WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, AREA HUMANE SOCIETIES AND CONCERNED CITIZENS TO PROVIDE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION TO FARMED ANIMALS SUFFERING FROM ABANDONMENT, ABUSE AND NEGLECT. WE PROVIDED FARMED ANIMAL CARE EXPERTISE, EMERGENCY CARE, AND WHEN WE COULD NOT TAKE THEM IN, COMMUNICATED WITHIN OUR NATIONAL NETWORK OF SANCTUARIES TO FIND THEM A SAFE FOREVER HOME. BARN SANCTUARY PROVIDED ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS SEEKING TO REHOME THEIR FARMED ANIMALS. TOURS/EDUCATION PROGRAM: OUR PUBLIC TOURS PROVIDE AN INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE 2 HOUR TOUR, GUESTS VISIT EACH BARN AND COOP ON THE PROPERTY AND LEARN ABOUT THE FARMED ANIMAL RESIDENTS STORIES, AND THE LIVES OF FARMED ANIMALS IN AGRICULTURAL SETTINGS VERSUS SANCTUARY LIFE.

    Expenses $1,002,967 · Revenue $26,837

  • FARMED ANIMAL CARE AND SHELTER PROGRAM: WE PROVIDED SAFE HAVEN AND LIFE-LONG CARE TO OVER 140 RESCUED FARMED ANIMALS, INCLUDING COWS, DONKEYS, CATS, GOATS, PIGS, POTBELLIED PIGS, SHEEP, DUCKS, CHICKENS AND TURKEYS. EACH INDIVIDUAL FARMED ANIMAL WAS PROVIDED WITH SAFE, CLEAN-LIVING SPACES BOTH INDOORS AND OUTDOORS, WITH PLENTY OF PASTURE SPACE AND SHELTER FROM INCLEMENT WEATHER. THE GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS WERE MAINTAINED AND IMPROVED TO ENSURE A HEALTHY AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE ANIMALS AND STAFF.

    Expenses $330,894 · Revenue $38,233

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.

  • Mischa Plotnick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leslie Fry

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lindsay Jaremba

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rebecca Wrock

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tina Ito

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Rich Hausrod

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.8

  • Erin Klug

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Erin Brown

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alicia Prygoski

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Daniel McKernan

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $128,471
    From this org
    $111,109
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,362
    Hours/week
    50

  • Cynthia Vanrenterghem

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (ENDED 10/24)

    Total calculated
    $78,265
    From this org
    $78,265
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    55

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
    $1,962,359
    Expenses
    $1,815,981
    Contributions
    $1,876,189
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,099,920
    Expenses
    $1,897,417
    Contributions
    $1,972,362
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,974,187
    Expenses
    $1,635,429
    Contributions
    $1,822,126
    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
    $1,430,698
    Expenses
    $1,542,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,658,847

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,013,354
    Expenses
    $1,415,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,737,047

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,227,237
    Expenses
    $1,081,664
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,134,369

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,206,570
    Expenses
    $592,817
    Assets (EOY)
    $993,548

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $533,555
    Expenses
    $193,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $368,811

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.