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SHINING HOPE FARMS

EIN 30-0067482 MOUNT HOLLY, NC

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Revenue 2024
$1,335,137
Expenses 2024
$1,404,269

Program services were 83.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P82
Classification
1000
Street
328 WHIPPOORWILL LN

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Shining Hope Farms is a Nonprofit organization whose mission is to enable children and adults to reach their full potential through the use of equine-assisted activities and therapy services.Shining Hope Farms operates three locations in the Western Piedmont region of North Carolina, offering equine-assisted services and enriching clinical therapies to benefit individuals of all ages with disabilities, Veterans, and those in need of mental health counseling. We have three farms (Charlotte, Mt. Holly, and Conover, NC) serving 14 surrounding counties as a strategic reach to impact the Greater Charlotte and Hickory Areas. We would love the opportunity for you to tour one of our farms and learn more about the impact we make. Please contact our Development Director Patrice Gibson at [email protected] to schedule a tour today.Shining Hope Farms has received national recognition due to the positive measurableoutcomes of its patients as well as its transparency of accounting p

Activities or mission (Part I)

See Schedule O

  • Therapy Services Program: Our THERAPY SERVICES PROGRAM offers physical, occupational, speech, and mental health clinical therapy services, in a traditional clinic setting, as well as in an enriching nature-based setting. We also offer equine movement and interaction where appropriate. In 2024, this program served 392 patients from 15 counties over the course of 5,413 visits between our three locations. See Schedule O for more.

    Expenses $912,733 · Revenue $482,207

  • Adaptive Riding Program: Our ADAPTIVE RIDING PROGRAM provides goal-oriented, recreational group and private lessons that are conducted by Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International Certified Riding instructors. Lessons have a variety of physical, social, and emotional benefits. In 2024, we served 80 riders over the course of 1,192 weekly lessons in this program. See Schedule O for more.

    Expenses $233,130 · Revenue $93,000

  • Saddles & Salutes Program: Our SADDLES & SALUTES VETERANS PROGRAM supports Veterans and their families wellness as part of their community reintegration. They can participate in any of our services free of charge, with staff specially trained to work with the Veteran population. In 2024, we helped 5 Veterans through group and individual counseling sessions and 11 Veterans through 176 adaptive riding lessons. See schedule O for more.

    Expenses $29,530 · Revenue $1

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Milinda Kirkpatrick

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $23,077
    From this org
    $23,077
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kari Saylor

    Chair/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Sheila Gibson

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Claire Chadwick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alex Bogojevich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Meagan Ignatowicz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jean Penner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Kevin Monroe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Connie Bowman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristen Kannen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jim Gallagher

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karl Kuehn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wayne Carter Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Courtney Stuckey Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Timothy Herndon

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Claudia Restrepo-Gartner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tres Wooldridge

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,335,137
    Expenses
    $1,404,269
    Contributions
    $668,368
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,174,413
    Expenses
    $1,271,751
    Contributions
    $623,492
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,106,687
    Expenses
    $1,202,101
    Contributions
    $624,943
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,158,974
    Expenses
    $991,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $908,265

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $733,694
    Expenses
    $712,796
    Assets (EOY)
    $752,732

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $751,210
    Expenses
    $781,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $695,045

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $766,617
    Expenses
    $762,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $696,179

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $450,063
    Expenses
    $422,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $258,391

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $366,837
    Expenses
    $319,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $229,356

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.