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THE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION C/O CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA

EIN 86-0887696 MESA, AZ

Revenue 2023
$69,290
Expenses 2023
$5,284,488

Program services were 97.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
817 N COUNTRY CLUB DR

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 · 2023

Mission

OFFERING CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS & THEIR FAMILIES RUSTIC, ARIZONA RANCH STYLE CAMP & RETREAT EXPERIENCES ENHANCED BY PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO FOSTER NURTURING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CAMPERS & ANIMALS AT THE RANCH.

  • WHRF SERVES A DIVERSE POPULATION OF CHILDREN, ADULTS, AND FAMILIES FROM THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF AZ WHO COPE WITH WHAT ARE OFTEN LIFE-ALTERING OR LIFE-LIMITING CONDITIONS. GUESTS SERVED BY WHRF FACE CHALLENGES SUCH AS ABUSE AND NEGLECT, AUTISM, BRAIN INJURY, CEREBRAL PALSY, DOWN SYNDROME, HEART DISEASE, HEMIPLEGIA, KIDNEY DISEASE, MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, SPINAL CORD ABNORMALITY OR INJURY, VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND THE LOSS OF A SIBLING OR PARENT. WHRF IS A HOST FACILITY, PROVIDING WEEKLONG CAMPS, WEEKEND RETREATS AND DAY PROGRAMS IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR GROWING FAMILY OF NON-PROFIT PARTNERING ORGANIZATIONS. SINCE 1999, WHRF HAS PARTNERED WITH MORE THAN 50 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR THOSE LIVING WITH ANY TYPE OF PHYSICAL, MEDICAL, EMOTIONAL, OR INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGE.

    Expenses $5,132,636 · Grants $4,840,554 · Revenue $14,280

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • PAUL DYKSTRA

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • STEVEN STRALSER PHD

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ADAM MAYS

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JAN VESSA

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KERI PICK

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOANNA ZUCKER

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CRIS ALVES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN HARTMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BYRON SARHANGIAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM BENDA MD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK IBARRA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRANDON SHIPMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA MORGANSTERN BICKEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CRYSTAL JENNINGS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LISA A RICCI CFO

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BLYTHE SWEENEY

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STARTED 8/23

    Total calculated
    $56,500
    From this org
    $56,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $69,290
    Expenses
    $5,284,488
    Contributions
    $52,650
    Grants paid
    $4,840,554
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,214,964
    Expenses
    $1,497,572
    Contributions
    $858,851
    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
    $909,369
    Expenses
    $1,338,637
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,740,575

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $943,275
    Expenses
    $1,135,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,150,813

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $974,461
    Expenses
    $1,030,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,359,514

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,624
    Expenses
    $1,232,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,414,205

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,026,064
    Expenses
    $1,226,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,789,162

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,411,274
    Expenses
    $1,182,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,023,272

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,127,816
    Expenses
    $1,241,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,089,182

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,783,208
    Expenses
    $1,313,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,670,355

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $914,326
    Expenses
    $1,256,910
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,188,771

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

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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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.