- Revenue 2025
- $78,249
- Expenses 2025
- $54,005
Program services were 88.6% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- F60
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 3343
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
Primary exempt purpose
OPERATION EQUINE OFFERS EQUINE ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY AND LEARNING (EAP/L) FOR MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS, VETERANS, EMERGENCY RESPONDERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, CAREGIVERS AND SUPPORTERS. OPERATION EQUINE PROVIDES MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING, PSYCHO-EDUCATION AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATED ACTIVITES, OFTEN ALSO REFERRED TO AS: EQUINE-ASSISTED LEARNING: EQUINE EXPERIENCE(S): EQUINE GUIDED LEARNING.
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COUNSELING SERVICES--INDIVIDUAL EQUINE THERAPEUTIC SERVICES ARE PROVIDED UTILIZING THE EAGALA CERTIFIED EQUINE THERAPY MODEL. THESE THERAPEUTIC SERVICES ARE PROVIDED WITHOT FINANCIAL COMMITMENT OR BURDEN ON PARTICIPANTS.
Expenses $47,368
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MARCUS INSTITUTE EVENTS - OPERATION EQUINE PROVIDES ONE-DAY EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY SERVICES AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE MARCUS INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN HEALTH'S 3-WEEK INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT PROGRAM FOR VETERANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS WHO STRUGGLE WITH PTSD AND TBI.
Expenses $458
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WARRIOR PACK TRIP - OPERATION EQUINE LEADS AND DIRECTS A 6-DAY INTENSIVE EQUINE THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM: 3 FAYS OF EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY SERVICES, AND 3 DAYS/2 NIGHTS OF AN OVERNIGHT PACK TRIP. A PROFESSIONAL OUTFITTER IS CONTRACTED TO PROVIDE THE PACK TRIP SERVICES. THIS EVENT IS PROVIDED WITHOUT FINANCIAL COMMITMENT OR BURDEN ON PARTICIPANTS.
Expenses $5
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ALL OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
As filed on the 2025 return.
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.
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Michelle KayeMICHELLE KAYE
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 20
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Theresa McDowellTHERESA MCDOWELL
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 3
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Scott SmithSCOTT SMITH
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
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Lorin KastnerLORIN KASTNER
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- 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
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2025
- Revenue
- $78,249
- Expenses
- $54,005
- Contributions
- $55,174
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2024
- Revenue
- $83,894
- Expenses
- $86,052
- Contributions
- $60,794
- Grants paid
- $2,242
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2023
- Revenue
- $40,758
- Expenses
- $49,692
- Contributions
- $27,015
- Grants paid
- not reported
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2022
- Revenue
- $61,325
- Expenses
- $36,631
- Contributions
- $26,523
- Grants paid
- not reported
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021
- Tax period
- 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
- Principal officer
-
Michelle Kaye
- Mailing address
- PO Box 3343Boulder CO 80307
- Website
- https://operationequine.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
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2025 COLLABORATIVE COALITION
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.