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REINS OF HOPE

REINS OF HOPE (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,117 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($67,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$238k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$278k
Net assets
$41k
10/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Reins of Hope does

Mission

Our mission is to provide professional, efective mental health services through equine assisted psychotherapy and learning to the underserved, marginalized populations in and around our community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Reins of h.o.p.e. Provides equine assisted psychotherapy to the ventura, santa barbara, and los angeles communities. Our mission is to provide safe positive and professional therapeutic equine experience to underserved youth, military personnel (active duty & veterans), first responders, their family members, and other individuals who have suffered a traumatic life occurence or are in need of support. Our vision is to enhance and build healthy relationships, improve mental health, and build resiliance in vulnerable, at-risk populations through evidence-based equine assisted psycotherapy and learning. We also conduct sessions at and for drug treatment centers. In 2024 we served 511 new clients and saw over 2000.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($222k) Expenses 100 ($284k) Net assets 100 ($127k)2018 Revenue 103 ($229k) Expenses 112 ($317k) Net assets 49 ($62k)2020 Revenue 79 ($176k) Expenses 60 ($170k) Net assets 37 ($47k)2021 Revenue 95 ($211k) Expenses 68 ($192k) Net assets 33 ($42k)2022 Revenue 119 ($264k) Expenses 101 ($287k) Net assets 30 ($38k)2023 Revenue 106 ($236k) Expenses 80 ($226k) Net assets 37 ($47k)2024 Revenue 107 ($238k) Expenses 86 ($243k) Net assets 33 ($41k)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (107)Expenses (86)Net assets (33)Peer revenue range

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 $129k to $64k (−50%).

$129k
$64k
$47k
$42k
$38k
$47k
$80k
2017201820202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 6% · 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of REINS OF HOPE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$62k
’17
−$88k
’18
$7k
’20
$19k
’21
−$23k
’22
$10k
’23
−$6k
’24
2.4
months of
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

Samanthan L Balcezak

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820202021202220232024
Listed9777777
Joined·+3·+0+4+0+0
No longer listed·5·0400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $28k → $34k.

2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 REINS OF HOPE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

REINS OF HOPE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

34% 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 REINS OF HOPE.

24%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 65% · 2019 44% · 2020 47% · 2021 96% · 2022 93% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.

“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

27% of REINS OF HOPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

98% of REINS OF HOPE's grant income comes from California funders.

MN
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

REINS OF HOPE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like REINS OF HOPE

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 14%Fundraising 12%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REINS 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 REINS OF HOPE?
REINS OF HOPE (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,117 to it, the largest being SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ($67,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does REINS OF HOPE have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $278,117 in grants to REINS OF HOPE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REINS OF HOPE?
SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REINS OF HOPE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 17 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