Acres of Hope
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811485839
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Longmont, CO, USA
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,248
- Expenses
- $80,713
- Assets
- $9,066
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Trista Fisher (executive director)
People named in this filing
- Heather Gamberg (founder director)
- Tony Gamberg (founder director)
- Trista Fisher (executive director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Acres of Hope is a 501c3 nonprofit operating a 37-acre therapeutic ranch in Longmont CO. Our mission is to empower individuals to find healing and restoration through the therapeutic power of horses and nature. We provide a safe nurturing environment that fosters growth community and collaboration for first responders and their families individuals and groups with intellectual and physical disabilities at-risk youth and young adults and anyone navigating a challenging season of life. All programming is provided at no cost and funded entirely through donations.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025 Acres of Hope provided no-cost therapeutic animal assisted programming on our 37 acre ranch in Longmont CO serving approximately 50-75 individuals through over 250 participant sessions including: Weekly therapeutic programming for a consistent group of 8-15 individuals with disabilities fostering deep bonds between rescued animals participants and volunteers. Community education and awareness events including hosting over100 supporters at a film preview about rescued horses. AOH provided lifelong dignity-first sanctuary to 9 rescued equines and farm animals incorporating them into therapeutic experiences that promote connection and healing. All programming was delivered entirely by volunteers with no paid staff ensuring 100 % of donations funded direct services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -24.6% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.