Hope Reins
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271074966
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9193454914
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rehabilitative Medical Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,206,729
- Expenses
- $2,470,095
- Assets
- $3,339,200
- Liabilities
- $1,142,983
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIM TSCHIRRET (FOUNDER & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KIM TSCHIRRET (FOUNDER & CEO): $113,747 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Hope reins' vision is to inspire true hope and real healing for every child. At our ranch, we pair children and teens experiencing trauma with a rescued horse and mentor to find hope and healing. The free-of-charge individual and group sessions include a focus on trust, communication, boundaries, and leadership which are important for both healing from trauma and building life-long resiliency. Many of the horses at hope reins have suffered similar abuse, trauma or rejection as the children we serve. The commonality that is present often triggers an instant and powerful bond between horse and child. The conversations facilitated by a trained mentor between a horse and a client provide meaningful opportunities for healing and growth in the key resiliency skills. Our goal through sessions is to give these children an opportunity for a safe relationship, one that fosters an environment of compassion, comfort and most importantly trust.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the pathway to resilience program helped 297 hurting kids heal through 3,506 sessions, including 207"pathway" kids, of which a record-breaking 80 were first-year enrollees. Plus, another 90 kids from strategic partners like durham rescue mission and boys & girls clubs. The kids in the program are aged 5 to 18, have incredibly diverse backgrounds, and may be black, white, hispanic, asian, or adopted from another country and have experienced either a serious traumatic event or have faced multiple adverse childhood experiences. Some travel to our ranch from as far away as Virginia and South Carolina. They may reside at home with one or both parents or grandparents or they may live with a foster family or in a group home. Regardless of financial status, we serve all these families at no cost to them.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.29 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.