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HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC

EIN 06-0987749 OLD LYME, CT

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Revenue 2024
$1,849,911
Expenses 2024
$2,307,231

Program services were 70.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
36 TOWN WOODS RD

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

HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING, INC. (HIGH HOPES) IS A NONPROFIT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION IN CONNECTICUT WHOSE MISSION IS FOSTER A VIBRANT COMMUNITY WHERE HORSE AND HUMAN INTERACTIONS IMPROVE LIVES. HIGH HOPES IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING EFFICIENT, SAFE, INNOVATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAMS TO INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES OF ALL AGES. HIGH HOPES WAS FOUNDED ON THE BELIEF THAT EXPERIENCING AND RIDING HORSES IN A SECURE, CHALLENGING AND COMPANIONABLE ENVIRONMENT WILL ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE. THE FOCUS IS ON EACH PARTICIPANTS NEED TO ACHIEVE MEANINGFUL GAINS IN BALANCE, COORDINATION, STRENGTH, CONFIDENCE AND SELF-RESPECT.

  • 1. OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, HIGH HOPES SERVED 361 PEOPLE; HELD 4,957 EQUINE ASSISTED ACTIVITIES AND THERAPY SESSIONS; UTILIZED 7,921 VOLUNTEER HOURS AND PROVIDED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO 100% OF OUR RIDERS. 2. EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES - 100% OF OUR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP PARTICIPANTS RECEIVED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; EVEN WITH THE INCREASE IN DEMAND HIGH HOPES CONTINUES TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THIS NECESSARY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. 3. HIGH HOPES CONTINUES TO PROVIDE ITS NECESSARY SERVICES TO PARTICIPANTS REGARDLESS OF AGE OR DISABILITY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO OUR PARKINSONS PROGRAM, HORSEMANSHIP AND THERAPEUTIC RIDING, VETERANS AND SUMMER CAMP PROGRAMS. ALL PROGRAMS PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE UP TO 100%.

    Expenses $1,623,714 · Revenue $126,542

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

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.

  • Melissa Lamont

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $106,095
    From this org
    $106,095
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Alison Darrell

    FORMER INTER

    Total calculated
    $67,008
    From this org
    $67,008
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $67,008
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $67,008
  • Mary Stalsburg

    FORMER EXEC.

    Total calculated
    $53,359
    From this org
    $53,359
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $53,359
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $53,359
  • Maris Wacs

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gregory Varga

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Todd Machnik

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Fader

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Kitchings Keenan

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Beth Garrity

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendy Visgilio

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Berger

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Liz Doering

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Margaret Mummert

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Priya Tandon

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Barbara Willkens

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Natalie Yonker

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Landon Potts

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Hill Canning

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gary Rogers

    VICE CHAIR,

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Peter Watt

    CHAIR

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,849,911
    Expenses
    $2,307,231
    Contributions
    $1,386,737
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,766,516
    Expenses
    $2,272,995
    Contributions
    $1,092,356
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,867,587
    Expenses
    $2,149,908
    Contributions
    $1,393,751
    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
    $1,827,774
    Expenses
    $1,530,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,136,068
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,613,238
    Expenses
    $1,485,334
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,105,693
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,443,735
    Expenses
    $1,525,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,620,710
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,297,391
    Expenses
    $1,596,177
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,545,679
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,276,009
    Expenses
    $1,570,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,676,954
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,730,366
    Expenses
    $1,424,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,769,025
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,599,689
    Expenses
    $1,469,837
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,248,244
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,526,532
    Expenses
    $1,376,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,318,748
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,680,019
    Expenses
    $1,349,765
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,232,793
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,254,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,988,805

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.