My Nonprofit Reviews

If I could select no stars I would. Read the reviews here and see what's real. A slew of positive reviews solicited by the executive director do not invalidate the accurate comments from the less than 5 star reviews.

This "non-profit" is a narcissist's hoarding operation that is funded and staffed by volunteers and donors who don't realize how much fraud is taking place. The board is made up of the founder (and executive director's husband), boarders that the ED has trapped into serving, and others that the ED has bullied in to taking a spot. The ED tells the board what to do, threatened to sue the entire past board (that was made up of actual board members) and forced the entire board to resign. The "saving lives" nonsense being advertised everywhere is applied to nothing about Zuma's. While some horses have been rescued from horrible circumstances and now are fed and cleaned up after, they cannot be adopted (unless you're willing to keep the horse on site forever, thereby continuing to fund the founding families hoarding. There are almost zero actual mental health programs and nothing is free. There is a riding program that helps fund the care of the horses, but the horses hate it, the energy is terrible and people are regularly getting injured. Injuries have been increasing since the staff changeover that the executive director keeps referencing in the responses on this site. Horses don't get training unless you pay for it, even though they need it to be safe in the program. If you expect to have a saddle that fits the horse you ride (that is in the riding program) you can expect to be told you have to buy one. There is now a "semester" program to trick you into overpaying, paying up front and being on a strict schedule that works for the last remaining trainers willing to be there. Don't believe the pretty lipstick that the executive director/founders keep trying to slap on this. It is not a non-profit benefitting anyone other than the family that owns the barn and their need to keep every horse and control of every person involved.