Reigning Grace Ranch

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453219899
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2015
Location
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Phone
4804428934
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Animal Protection and Welfare

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,560,872
Expenses
$1,367,959
Assets
$2,656,663
Liabilities
$20,486

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Christopher Moore (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Amanda Moore (Executive Dir.): $100,602 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Reigning Grace Ranch is a ministry dedicated to reclaiming wholeness through the restoration of horses and people for the glory of God by horse rescue, therapeutic sessions with children and hosting student volunteers equipping them with tools for resilience, leadership, and personal growth.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, Reigning Grace Ranch expanded its impact through equine-assisted mentorship, horse rescue and rehabilitation, faith-based community programming, and volunteer engagement. The Ranch provided approximately 2,700 documented program encounters, including 1,300 private one-on-one mentorship sessions and group programming representing an additional 1,400 participant encounters. These services supported at-risk children, youth, struggling families, and first responders and were provided at no cost to participating families. The Ranch also rescued, rehabilitated, and placed 30 horses during the year. Rescued horses received veterinary, nutritional, dental, farrier, and behavioral care before being placed in qualified adoptive homes, retained in sanctuary, or prepared to serve as partners in the Ranchs mentorship and equine-assisted programs. This integrated model allows the restoration of horses to become an essential part of the restoration and growth experienced by program participants. Reigning Grace Ranch maintained a strong community volunteer program consisting of approximately 175 active, weekly volunteers who contributed more than 40,000 hours of service during 2025. An additional 547 community volunteers who contributed their time through monthly, quarterly, and annual service opportunities. Together, these volunteers supported mentorship programs, equine care, chapel ministry, facilities, events and general ranch operations. The Ranch continued operating weekly chapel gatherings and childrens ministry programming, both open to the public without charge or membership requirements. These gatherings provided worship, teaching, spiritual formation, and community connection and also served as an entry point for families seeking mentorship, volunteer opportunities, and other Ranch services. A significant facility accomplishment in 2025 was the completion of the Hope and Healing Barn. This dedicated facility expanded the Ranchs capacity to provide safe, consistent, and appropriate space for equine care, rehabilitation, and equine-assisted programming. The Ranch also began development of Grace Grove Orchard, which is intended to support future educational programming, land stewardship, and food sustainability. Organizationally, Reigning Grace Ranch strengthened its infrastructure and accountability by implementing measurable program scorecards, quarterly priorities, and a formal leadership accountability structure. The Ranch also initiated its first coordinated institutional fundraising effort, submitting six grant applications and receiving $100,000 in awarded grant funding.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $101K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2013 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.