Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$6,582,802

Total expenses

$7,360,537

Contributions and grants received

$3,241,281

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$2,460,856

Investment income

$112,969

Other revenue

$767,696

Total assets, end of year

$19,039,877

Total liabilities, end of year

$348,241

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$18,691,636

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$5,986,250

Management and general expenses

$1,213,212

Fundraising expenses

$161,075

Program service expenses (Part III)

$5,986,250

Program services were 81.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2024

• Stay 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.In 2024, the Stay Together program served a total of 795 youth clients, serving on average 190 youth monthly through approximately 493 in-home visits per month. The Stay Together program also provided 150 community workshops through our 33-county service area. 100% of families participating in the Stay Together program showed an increase in at least one protective factor. Protective Factors is a research-based framework which identifies five of the most important aspects proven to minimize child abuse and neglect within a familys home. 94% of families showed an increase in all five protective factors following program completion.

  Expenses $1,886,170

• Foster Care and Adoption - High Skys Foster Care & Adoption program provides temporary foster care and permanency through adoption 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 & Adoption program focused on providing high-quality services and creating a community of hope through foster care and adoption. In 2024, the program supported 27 active foster and adoptive homes, cared for 50 youth, finalized 14 adoptions, and provided 5,329 days of service to children in substitute care. 81% of the youth placed in High Skys foster and adoptive homes experienced successful discharges from their placements. A successful discharge refers to the process of youth transitioning out of the foster care system in a way that sets them up for long-term stability, permanency, and positive life outcomes through family reunification and adoption. This is considered the ideal outcome for a childs time in foster care.

  Expenses $1,716,777

• High 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 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 children of all ages, ensuring that sibling groups can stay together during this challenging time. Caregivers in the shelter are trained in trauma-informed services to provide nurturing care, stability, and security. Alongside meeting basic needs, the shelter encourages age-appropriate recreational activities, and each child is assigned a Case Manager who oversees their medical, behavioral, and mental healthcare needs, as well as collaborating with schools to support their educational goals and academic progress.Through both campus programs, High Sky Childrens Ranch remains dedicated to offering a safe and caring environment for children in foster care, supporting their emotional wellbeing, personal growth, and overall development. In 2024, the Teen Boys Home provided 1,284 days of service to 9 youth in care, while the Emergency Shelter provided 2,238 days of service to 54 youth in care.

  Expenses $1,492,355

• 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, the child and the family unit in our state-of-the-art therapeutic center. In addition to providing parental skill development and education, our program offers bonding with parent and child through art therapy. This allows them to create keepsakes for each other during their separation while the court reviews their progress and makes a decision regarding reunification. PWP helped families navigate through one of the hardest challenges they will ever face - healing their own traumas, addictions, and behavioral challenges to reunify with their children. Many of these parents have their own previous history of trauma and with CPS, thus repeating the cycle of child abuse.

  Expenses $562,313

• 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.

  Expenses $278,419

• Preparation for Adult Living: Life Skills Training - Our PAL classes are designed to teach life skills to youth ages 16 and up that are in foster care. We teach topics such as Money Management, Housing & Transportation, Health & Nutrition, Job Skills, Planning for the Future, and Personal & Interpersonal relationships. We use experiential field trips such as touring Universities and Apartment complexes to enhance the material covered by our expert speakers from the local community. This enables the youth to learn how to utilize resources in their specific community and make connections with individuals and agencies that will continue to benefit the youth.

  Expenses $50,216

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH ENDOWMENT INC

  501C3 · HOLD ENDOW FUNDS & DIST. EARNINGS TO HSCR AS APPROVED BY BOD · TX

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

12 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

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