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TARAS CHANCE

EIN 46-0941505 FULLERTON, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,213,750
Expenses 2024
$913,996

Program services were 93.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E50
Classification
1000
Street
219 CLAIRE AVE

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

TARA'S CHANCE IS DEDICATED TO PROMOTING THE PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE, AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS THROUGH EQUINE ASSISTED ACTIVITIES AND THERAPIES.

  • "PROVIDES THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING AND EQUINE-ASSISTED ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, FOCUSING ON FOSTERING PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT. THIS YEAR, WE SERVED OVER 100 INDIVIDUALS, CONDUCTING OVER 4,000 HOURS OF INDIVIDUALIZED THERAPY SESSIONS WITH THE HELP OF OUR DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS AND PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTORS. WE CONTINUE TO PRIORITIZE ACCESSIBILITY AND QUALITY IN OUR SERVICES, WORKING CLOSELY WITH FAMILIES AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS TO CUSTOMIZE THERAPEUTIC GOALS FOR EACH RIDER.

    Expenses $857,982 · Revenue $268,742

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.

  • MATTHEW HOWELLS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $77,129
    From this org
    $77,129
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • LOUISE HERNANDEZ

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIRIAM EVERETTE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JUDY METZGER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CAROL GEISBAUER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DOTTIE JENSEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAUL MILLER

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • JULIE MAX

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LANCE MILLS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN ISRAEL

    TREASURER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,213,750
    Expenses
    $913,996
    Contributions
    $511,052
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,156,067
    Expenses
    $764,231
    Contributions
    $571,006
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $781,519
    Expenses
    $583,759
    Contributions
    $324,023
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $805,598
    Expenses
    $636,091
    Contributions
    $324,023
    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
    $425,622
    Expenses
    $426,716
    Assets (EOY)
    $272,307

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $362,149
    Expenses
    $270,872
    Assets (EOY)
    $273,094

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $208,831
    Expenses
    $196,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $179,206

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $223,877
    Expenses
    $179,806
    Assets (EOY)
    $162,239

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $145,620
    Expenses
    $146,061
    Assets (EOY)
    $113,865

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $135,920
    Expenses
    $99,495
    Assets (EOY)
    $81,865

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.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.