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ANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY

EIN 91-1939165 BELLINGHAM, WA

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Revenue 2025
$555,882
Expenses 2025
$571,225

Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 31595

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

ANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY (ANT) OFFERS THERAPEUTIC EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAMS BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE THAT ANIMALS CAN ASSIST HUMANS IN THE LEARNING OF IMPORTANT LIFE SKILLS: RESPECT FOR SELF AND OTHERS, TRUST- BUILDING, AND CLEAR COMMUNICATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

OUR MISSION IS TO STRENGTHEN OUR COMMUNITY BY DEVELOPING HEALTHY, RESILIENT INDIVIDUALS THROUGH ANIMAL-FACILITATED THERAPY & EDUCATION, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO YOUTH, VETERANS, AND FAMILIES.

  • ANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY PROVIDES MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES TO YOUTH, VETERANS AND ELDERS THROUGH ANIMAL-ASSISTED THERAPY AND MENTORSHIP. WHAT BEGAN AS SIMPLE HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN 1999, HAS DEVELOPED INTO A HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER AND WELL-RESPECTED THERAPEUTIC MODEL. ANT OFFERS A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS IN RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC COMMUNITY NEEDS: A) THE SAFETY NET PROGRAM, WHICH WAS CREATED IN RESPONSE TO THE NEED FOR ALTERNATIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR YOUTH FOR WHOM TRADITIONAL THERAPY WAS INEFFECTIVE, UNAFFORDABLE, OR UNAVAILABLE, NOW SERVES BETWEEN 350-400 YOUTH PER YEAR. IT ALSO INCLUDES SCHOOL WORKSHOPS ON LEADERSHIP, BULLY AWARENESS AND SELF-CONFIDENCE. B) THE NEW HORIZONS PROGRAM, A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT WITH SEAMAR VISIONS CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY TREATMENT CENTER, PROVIDES THERAPEUTIC SERVICES FOR 60 TEEN WOMEN STRUGGLING WITH CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY FROM THROUGHOUT WASHINGTON STATE. C) THE EAGLE PROGRAM PROVIDES EQUINE ASSISTED EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING SERVICES TO A DOZEN VETERANS YEARLY. ANT HAS DEVELOPED A PROVEN MODEL IN ALL PROGRAMS THAT USES ANIMALS TO HELP A PERSON BUILD TRUST, RESPECT, AND SELF-CONFIDENCE. IN TURN, PARTICIPANTS FIND HOPE AND HEALING AS THEY LEARN TO MANAGE THEIR OWN BEHAVIORS AND NEGOTIATE HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS. THE EXPERIENTIAL COMPONENT ENABLES PARTICIPANTS TO PHYSICALLY EXPLORE THEIR STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, AND OPTIONS AS THEY HANDLE CHALLENGING SITUATIONS THAT THE ANIMALS PRESENT, AND SUCCESS IN THIS EFFORT ULTIMATELY SHIFTS THEIR BELIEFS IN THEIR OWN CAPABILITIES.

    Expenses $469,884 · Revenue $101,717

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.

  • Jaime Arnett

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $78,177
    From this org
    $72,570
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,607
    Hours/week
    40

  • Debra Walls-Vazquez

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ian McCurdy

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tina Marshall

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adrian Fiala-Clark

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Diana Ambauen-Meade

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Page

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Taber Darland

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $555,882
    Expenses
    $571,225
    Contributions
    $384,328
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $438,084
    Expenses
    $549,023
    Contributions
    $270,766
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $466,164
    Expenses
    $541,589
    Contributions
    $257,638
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $379,448
    Expenses
    $506,765
    Contributions
    $186,446
    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
    $493,486
    Expenses
    $451,185
    Assets (EOY)
    $319,498

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $518,203
    Expenses
    $506,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $152,231

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $512,044
    Expenses
    $464,454
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,575

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $379,372
    Expenses
    $402,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,308

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $491,761
    Expenses
    $473,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $75,813

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $389,854
    Expenses
    $394,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,561

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $354,095
    Expenses
    $350,436
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,440

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $349,941
    Expenses
    $331,337
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,516

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,169
    Expenses
    $309,555
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,942

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,809
    Expenses
    $318,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,942

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.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.