Hope for Hooves
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825281522
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Franktown, CO, USA
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,152
- Expenses
- $63,560
- Assets
- $33,491
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mimi Kuchman (President)
People named in this filing
- Mimi Kuchman (President)
- Michelle Bennewitz (Secretary and Treasurer)
- DeeDee Parker (member)
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
Horse rescue
What it reported doing in 2025
Our mission is to rescue rehabilitate and re-adopt between 6-10 abused abandoned or neglected horses per year. Our program expenses include operations $11741 animal care $35504 and animal training $16825 throughout the year. Animals go through our program at different levels of rehabilitation before they can be cleared for adoption to well-educated humans who will care for them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- 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: 14.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.