Hope 4 Horses Rescue and Sanctuary
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825264269
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Effingham, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2173437796
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $86,178
- Expenses
- $83,108
- Assets
- $5,232
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Donna L Columbus (President)
- Jessica Ann Carey (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Donna L Columbus (President)
- Jessica Ann Carey (Vice President)
- Linda Allmon (Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rescue, Rehabilitate, train and try to adopt horses out that are healthy to permanent homes. We bring in horses that are seized by the counties within our state of Illinois, we take in owner surrenders when folks cannnot care and feed for the horses, we save horses from being slaughtered. Most horses come in very poor condition. First we will have them fully vetted, then get them healthy and when they are healthy we will retrain the horses and work with them so they trust again. We then provide them to families to be adopted. We have all volunteers that help us with this process.
What it reported doing in 2024
Proper care and maintenance of the animals hooves are essential to reaching the goal to have the animal healthy. There are horses we have that have foundered and have ring bone so they have to remain on a strict schedule of having their hooves cared for; trimmed and shoes. Some need special maintenance and supplements for their hooves. This expense in this section covers the cost of the ferrier along with training of horses
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.