Tin Cup Challenge
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Help Hope Take Hold
Second Chances Start Here—for horses in need, and for the people who care enough to help them heal.
So far this year, HAPI Trails has helped 12 horses—including having 2 stallions gelded, providing a life-saving surgery, and having 3 horses in active training, with many more waiting. In May alone, 7 horses found loving homes. From a mare and foal in crisis to retired service horses from Yellowstone, our work continues because you believe in second chances.
But here’s the truth:
We’re $50,000 short of where we need to be.
Our current budget is $123,750, but a fully funded year requires $175,000 to keep pace with demand and provide the level of care these horses deserve.
Why This is the Best Time to Give
Through the Community Foundation’s Tin Cup Challenge, your gift is:
- 100% passed through to HAPI Trails (and sometimes more)
- Matched up to $25,000 through the Challenger Fund
- Time-sensitive—only donations made now through July 25, 5pm count toward the match
That means your gift goes further—and gets horses the help they need, faster.
Where Your Gift Goes
Whether you give $50 or $5,000, your support goes directly to what matters most: hay, healing, and a home for horses in need.
Capital Campaign: Building for the Future
We are actively seeking support for:
- A $50,000 barn roof project to expand protected shelter
- A $35,000 large stock trailer for hauling rescues, fosters, and adopted horses
These are not “extras”—they are essentials for the scale and quality of work we now do, including our recent role in national rescue operations.
Help Us Meet the Need
Our current budget gets us barely across the finish line.
But with your support, we can:
- Increase our training capacity
- Say yes to more emergency calls
- Improve long-term outcomes for the horses we serve
Your donation through the Tin Cup Challenge helps close the gap.
It turns a lean, reactive budget into a proactive, sustainable future for rescue horses.
Help Hope Take Hold.
This is the difference between “just getting by” and truly thriving—for us, and for the horses.
Join us. Give today through the Tin Cup Challenge.
2024 Celebrating 15 Years of Helping Horses in Need.
2023 Get Roped In!
HAPI Trails 2024
HAPI Trails received $42,909.55! Thank YOU!
• Purchase 29 bags of supplemental feed and 85 tons of hay to ensure proper nutrition for our horses.
• Assist with marketing and administrative costs, as well as tractor repairs, groundskeeping, and utilities to maintain our facility.
• Support key programs, including Senior Equine Adoptions, Community Equine Assistance, Foster Care, and the Hands-on Horses Healing Workshop.
• Partially fund perimeter fencing to keep our horses safe and secure.
• Provide basic handling and behavioral training for seven horses, resulting in four successful adoptions.
• Cover transportation costs for three trucks and trailers used to rescue 10 horses from a hoarding situation in Boise.
• Fund extra veterinary care, including dental work, gelding of a stallion, treatment of injuries, and vaccine boosters.
This funding directly contributed to the health, safety, and well-being of our rescue horses, helping us fulfill our mission of providing second chances.
HAPI Trails 2023
HAPI Trails received $50,733.00! Thank YOU!
Because of the Tin Cup Funding, we were able to:
• The Tin Cup Challenge helped HAPI Trails care for our program’s horses throughout the year.
• We purchased 64 tons of hay
• 2,200 pounds (45 bags) of supplemental feeds
• Provide veterinarian care for 18 horses, including care for two severely malnourished horses.
• Five horses received training, resulting in 4 adoptions.
• Provided special location care for three community members’ horses.
• Four National Park Service horses found new homes through our program.
• Replaced broken fencing & purchased panels, and repaired our hay-moving tractor.
• It helps cover some of our operating & community programming expenses.
HAPI Trails 2022
HAPI Trails received $46,525.00! Thank YOU!
Because of the Tin Cup Funding, we were able to:
• Purchase 85 tons of hay
• 3,900 pounds (54 bags) of supplemental feeds
• 15 3lb buckets & 30 1lb bags of farrier supplements
• Provide the needed veterinarian care for 24 horses, including the care for two stallions that needed to be neutered, and four abandoned horses
• Two horses received specialty farrier care
• Five horses received training, resulting in 4 adoptions
• Five other horses also found their forever homes.
• Replaced broken fencing & purchased particular sand/footing for our barn
• Cover some of our operating & community programming expenses