Texas · Nonprofit
HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC
HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC (Texas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,342,930 to it, the largest being BEAL FOUNDATION ($3,634,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $19M
What High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc does
Mission
High sky children's ranch is dedicated to healing abused children and promoting family wholeness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foster Care and Adoption - High Skys Foster Care program provides temporary care for children who have experienced trauma, abuse, or neglect. High Sky recruits, trains, and licenses families who are willing to open their hearts and homes to children in need. High Sky staff work closely with foster, adoptive, and kinship families to provide on-going training, resources, and continuous support.High Skys Foster Care program focused on providing high-quality services and creating a community of hope through foster care and adoption. In 2023, the Foster Care program licensed 38 foster and adoptive homes, cared for 59 youth, finalized 20 adoptions, and provided 7,587 days of service to children in foster care. In 2023, the Foster Care program also welcomed a newly licensed foster family to reside on-campus in the Carter Home to care for youth in foster care. 89% of the youth placed in High Skys foster and adoptive homes experienced successful discharges from their placements
$1,728,022 spent33% of program spendingStay Together - The Stay Together Program offers comprehensive support and prevention services to families and youth within its 33-county service area, with a focus on empowering them through parenting and life/coping skills. The program caters to families with children aged 0-17 years (or older, if they are still attending high school), aiming to foster positive, healthy relationships. Through specialized curriculums, in-home visits, workshops, and a 24-hour crisis intervention hotline, the Stay Together Program provides preventive services at no cost to clients. Its goal is to equip families with the necessary tools for conflict resolution and family skills, enabling them to effectively navigate challenges.This program has remained adaptable and responsive to their clients needs and preferences. Since COVID, the Stay Together Program has continued to offer both in-person and virtual services to clients, affording clients increased flexibility with scheduling. The option to now serve clients virtually has offered flexible scheduling to clients while increasing staffing efficiencies within the program. In 2023, the Stay Together program served a total of 814 youth clients, serving…
$1,504,978 spent29% of program spendingHigh Sky Emergency Shelter and Teen Boys Home - The Boys Teen Home offers a supportive and nurturing long-term placement for boys aged 13-17. In this home, specially trained caregivers provide trauma-informed care, practices, and behavioral interventions to meet the individual needs of each youth. The Teen Home focuses on creating a home-like atmosphere that allows the youth to experience normal teenage activities, develop life skills, and pursue employment opportunities, all while receiving comprehensive medical, behavioral, and mental healthcare support from dedicated Case Managers. This program has allowed High Sky to provide much-needed support and care for teen boys who have been removed from their homes by CPS. The Teen Home fills a crucial gap in our area, where long-term placements for teen boys with specialized needs are scarce. By recognizing this need and taking action, High Sky is working to ensure that these young individuals have a stable and nurturing environment where they can thrive and heal.High Sky Childrens Ranch operates an Emergency Shelter to provide temporary placement for children in foster care while long-term options are secured. The shelter welcomes…
$1,174,770 spent23% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: LIFE Aftercare - Our Life AfterCare program works with youth in foster care ages 17-21, that are preparing to leave or have left foster care. We assist the youth with their transition to living independently out on their own. Our case Managers meet with the youth and discuss their individual goals. The Case Managers break down the necessary steps and highlight any potential obstacles and how to avoid them. We then meet regularly to monitor their progress and to set new goals. We have limited funding for each youth to bridge gaps in finances and to help assist them in achieving self-sufficiency. Our program works with youth in the Permian Basin in West Texas and the Concho Valley area and we have a 95% success rate in youth successfully entering the workforce and 91% of our youth are in stable housing as adults living on their own. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Partnering with Parents and Therapeutic - Our Partnering with Parents and therapeutic programs work with parents who have had their youth removed by CPS; however, reunification is still a viable option. Our program offers supervised and monitored visitations and provides counseling for both the parent,…
$776,672 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,184,442.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $9.3M to $17M (+82%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $970k → $1.6M.
16 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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.
How concentrated its funding is
HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 37% · 2019 38% · 2020 18% · 2021 23% · 2022 13% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states 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
HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- High Sky Childrens Ranch Endowment Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC?
- HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC (Texas) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,342,930 to it, the largest being BEAL FOUNDATION ($3,634,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $17,342,930 in grants to HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC?
- BEAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,634,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 69 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