North Carolina · Nonprofit
HOPE REINS
HOPE REINS (North Carolina) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000,988 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,775,408). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Hope Reins does
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
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.
$1,595,304 spent91% of program spendingAcademyin 2025 we trained:150 similar ranches91 new leaders.Hope Reins academy is our training and equipping program. Through the academy, we share the tools, knowledge, and expertise we've developed since 2010 serving children in crisis. Drawing from over a decade of experience, we train individuals and organizations to bring hope and healing to their own communities. Our curriculum covers a wide range of topics from horsemanship grounded in our unique philosophy to organizational best practices for sustainable, trauma-informed ministry. Participants pay fees to access and maintain ongoing use of our training resources. Hope Reins academy extends the reach of our mission and helps advance our vision to inspire true hope and real healing for every child.
$157,845 spent$31,040 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,753,149.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $2.2M to $3.1M (+42%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of HOPE REINS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Chief executive
Kim Tschirret
Founder & CEO
Board chair
Ruby Brown-Herring
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $374k → $524k.
16 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 HOPE REINS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
HOPE REINS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 53%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HOPE REINS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 57% · 2019 53% · 2020 46% · 2021 45% · 2022 46% · 2023 40% — 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
59% of HOPE REINS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
68% of HOPE REINS'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. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
HOPE REINS is better cushioned than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOPE REINS
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 HOPE REINS: 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 HOPE REINS?
- HOPE REINS (North Carolina) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000,988 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,775,408). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HOPE REINS have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,000,988 in grants to HOPE REINS, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE REINS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,775,408 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE REINS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 59 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing