CANDLELIGHT RANCH FOUNDATION

EIN 74-2939045 AUSTIN, TX

Revenue 2025: $1,120,322
Expenses 2025: $932,685

Program services were 84.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: N20
Classification: 1000
Street: PO BOX 26367

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

CANDLELIGHT RANCH PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL AND NATURE BASED EXPERIENCES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OF ALL ABILITIES AND NEEDS TO LEARN, EXPLORE, AND HEAL.

THROUGH EDUCATIONAL AND NATURE BASED PROGRAMS, CANDLELIGHT RANCH PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND NONPROFITS TO CUSTOMIZE ONE, TWO, OR THREE DAY VISITS. ACTIVITIES ARE CUSTOMIZED TO MEET INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND GOALS WHILE UTILIZING OUR ACCESSIBLE AND NATURAL SPACES.

Expenses $790,977 · Revenue $1,572

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.

Paul MasschelinPAUL MASSCHELIN

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Adam FlaggADAM FLAGG

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jennifer SellersJENNIFER SELLERS

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Arun JacobARUN JACOB

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Don BarrDON BARR

CO-FOUNDER, EMERITUS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Laura ArendLAURA AREND

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Ben CousinsBEN COUSINS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Crystal CousinsCRYSTAL COUSINS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Ashley CooperASHLEY COOPER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Stephanie CooperSTEPHANIE COOPER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Dauphen JacksonDAUPHEN JACKSON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jonathan WagnerJONATHAN WAGNER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jean WagnerJEAN WAGNER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Stephanie WeberSTEPHANIE WEBER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Due WestDUE WEST

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Melissa WestonMELISSA WESTON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Stacie ByranSTACIE BYRAN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$94,398

From this org

$85,226

From related orgs

$0

Other

$9,172

Hours/week

40

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

$1,120,322

Expenses

$932,685

Contributions

$749,369

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$2,823,311

Expenses

$860,967

Contributions

$2,532,331

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$1,047,116

Expenses

$721,536

Contributions

$864,344

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$786,451

Expenses

$645,155

Contributions

$499,936

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$1,120,322	$932,685	$749,369	$0
2024	$2,823,311	$860,967	$2,532,331	$0
2023	$1,047,116	$721,536	$864,344	$0
2022	$786,451	$645,155	$499,936	$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

$804,391

Expenses

$580,535

Assets (EOY)

$1,529,002
2020 · 990

Revenue

$636,630

Expenses

$484,101

Assets (EOY)

$1,250,666
2019 · 990

Revenue

$647,686

Expenses

$545,795

Assets (EOY)

$1,007,107
2018 · 990

Revenue

$556,497

Expenses

$511,935

Assets (EOY)

$897,725
2017 · 990

Revenue

$520,983

Expenses

$376,136

Assets (EOY)

$1,085,075
2016 · 990

Revenue

$401,980

Expenses

$367,467

Assets (EOY)

$909,977
2015 · 990

Revenue

$451,884

Expenses

$471,093

Assets (EOY)

$864,252
2014 · 990

Revenue

$542,914

Expenses

$375,207

Assets (EOY)

$899,459
2013 · 990

Revenue

$421,981

Expenses

$307,086

Assets (EOY)

$727,731
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$312,122

Assets (EOY)

$613,834

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$804,391	$580,535	$1,529,002
2020	990	$636,630	$484,101	$1,250,666
2019	990	$647,686	$545,795	$1,007,107
2018	990	$556,497	$511,935	$897,725
2017	990	$520,983	$376,136	$1,085,075
2016	990	$401,980	$367,467	$909,977
2015	990	$451,884	$471,093	$864,252
2014	990	$542,914	$375,207	$899,459
2013	990	$421,981	$307,086	$727,731
2012	990	not reported	$312,122	$613,834

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

AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$32,965

2022 CHILDREN IN NATURE: LEARN, EXPLORE,
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$31,199

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$30,213

2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
TEXAS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

$30,000

2024 Generational Learning
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND

$26,029

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$25,000

2023 GENERAL ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$23,650

2023 CHILDREN IN NATURE
AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$21,750

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
CENTRAL TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$20,000

2024 GENERAL ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

$19,901

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT

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.