Texas · Nonprofit
Ranch Hands Rescue
Ranch Hands Rescue (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,430,130 to it, the largest being The Rees-Jones Foundation ($550,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Ranch Hands Rescue does
Mission
To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling center - Ranch Hands Rescue specializes in treating more complex trauma cases, such as victims of severe and repetitive abuse and people not making progress in their current treatment programs. The organization heals critical care animals, then gives them a purpose in rhr's counseling program as they participate in eaac alongside specifically selected licensed professionals.see schedule o for details on the threapeutic programs provided and their successes for the year.
$96,363 spent$173,898 earned by the program6% of program spendingSafe house - founded in 2021, bob's house of hope, a program of Ranch Hands Rescue, operates as a comprehensive residential program and safe house for young adult male-identifying survivors of sex trafficking. Ranch Hands Rescue also prevents sex trafficking of males by providing trauma resolution to boys who have been sexually abused.see schedule o for more details on the safe house and rhr's fight against human trafficking.
$1,300,141 spent$2,121,196 earned by the program75% of program spendingAnimal sanctuary - rhr rescues, rehabilitates, and provides sanctuary for the worst-of-the-worst farm animal abuse and neglect cases. The animals that will live out their lives at the rhr sanctuary are incorporated into the eaac program, and are given love and purpose. Theorganization's animals that cannot be adopted due to special care needs live out their lives in a peaceful and happy environment. Rhr provides a sanctuary for approximately 50 special needs farm animals.
$332,037 spent$122,056 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,728,541.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $880k to $5.4M (+509%).
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: 2021 25% · 2022 81% · 2023 76% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Ranch Hands Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Landon Dickeson
Executive Director
Board chair
Robert F Williams
President & Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $49k → $404k.
14 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Ranch Hands Rescue’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
Ranch Hands Rescue has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
39% 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 Ranch Hands Rescue.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 22% · 2019 24% · 2020 34% · 2021 28% · 2022 38% · 2023 25% — 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
41% of Ranch Hands Rescue's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
59% of Ranch Hands Rescue's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $678k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Ranch Hands Rescue runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Ranch Hands Rescue receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Department of Justice$200k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Ranch Hands Rescue
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ranch Hands Rescue: 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 Ranch Hands Rescue?
- Ranch Hands Rescue (Texas) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,430,130 to it, the largest being The Rees-Jones Foundation ($550,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ranch Hands Rescue have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $2,430,130 in grants to Ranch Hands Rescue, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ranch Hands Rescue?
- The Rees-Jones Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ranch Hands Rescue 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 61 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