Colorado · Nonprofit
Acres of Hope
Acres of Hope (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($42). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $42
- Net assets
- $9k
What Acres of Hope does
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Acres of Hope provides support and wellness experiences for first responders at risk youth individuals with disabilities families and community members. Programs include farm animal rescue rehabilatation and lifelong care. Ranch animal based wellness experiences mentorship and support activities focused on emotional wellness healing and connection. We also introduced art therapy in the barn this year.
$80,713 spent100% of program spendingDuring 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.
$0 spent0% of program spendingRetreat experiences for 36 guest in our Geodesic domes July-September offering quiet space for reflection and connection
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,713.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Acres of Hope’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Trista Fisher
executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11 → $16.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Acres of Hope’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Acres of Hope's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Acres of Hope runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Acres of Hope
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Acres of Hope: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Acres of Hope?
- Acres of Hope (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($42). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Acres of Hope have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $42 in grants to Acres of Hope, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Acres of Hope?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Acres of Hope find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing