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American Quarter Horse Foundation

The foundation connects horses and people through charitable giving to support programs that preserve our horses legacy and further the well-being of the american quarter horse family.

$833k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.9MEducation$591kHealth$162kYouth Development$150kRecreation & Sports$94kHuman Services$26k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $474,657, the rows itemized in this filing. The $832,942 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $358,285 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $259k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $196k
$18,733
Median grant
11
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$78,871
TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH$61,320
AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION$55,441
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY$46,667
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$43,915
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$33,486
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$26,667
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$23,306
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$18,733
TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY$18,655
GREAT OAK EQUINE ASSISTED PROGRAMS$15,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$11,800
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$10,209
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$10,167
STABLE STRIDES FARM$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $6k → 6%PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC: $5k → 7%Forward Stride: $5k → 8%BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING & EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 20 repeat orgs$377k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
27

Total granted

$2.5M
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+48%

Still filing today

30%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AQ
    AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +28%
  • UO
    University of Kentucky Research Foundation
    4× · 2017–2022 · $201k · revenue +66%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $145k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2022 · $31k
  • RM
    RACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -13%
  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +27%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies
Health
2
Special Equestrians Inc

To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.

Health
3
Wings of Hope Therapeutic Riding Program Inc
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4
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
5
Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding of Nw Colorado
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Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc

We improve quality of life through equine-based therapy to physically, mentally and socially/emotionally challenged individuals. Our unique program integrates academic, social and physical skills using the horse as a catalyst.

Health
7
Hidden Acres Therapeutic Riding Center Inc

To improve the minds, bodies and spirits of children and adults with special needs through the benefits of therapeutic riding and equine assisted activities.

Health
8
Unharnessed Potential

At Unharnessed Potential, we incorporate horses experientially for emotional growth and learning into all our therapy programs. The results of such an experience can be life changing. Incorporating horses as catalysts for learning can calm…

Health
9
Reining Strength Therapeutic Horsemanship

By partnering with horses, we help people realize their individual potential through customized equine assisted services

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Therapeutic Riding Institute Inc

To improve the lives and health of children and adults in southwest Ohio with special physical, cognitive, social and psychological needs through equine assisted services and therapies. TRI partners extensively with community organizations…

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11
Heroes Equine Assisted Riding Therapy
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12
Therapeutic Riding and Off-Track Rehabilitation Trotr

The rehabilitation of horses and people through interaction with each other.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horses Help Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $483,519 · OtherTEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCHAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION: $344,701 · OtherAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATIONCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $191,273 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $172,885 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $136,454 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,045 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $94,082 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $92,400 · OtherMONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $74,932 · OtherTARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY: $74,620 · Other+17 more: $412,029 · Other+17 moreUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $201,252 · EducationUniversity of Kentuck…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $144,727 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESO…University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $123,042 · EducationUniversity of Georgia…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $68,591 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…+1 more: $14,996 · EducationGREAT OAK EQUINE ASSISTED PROGRAMS: $15,000 · Human ServicesHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $6,253 · Human ServicesFORWARD STRIDE: $5,150 · Human ServicesPAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $9,145 · HealthStable-Spirit: $8,800 · HealthSTABLE STRIDES FARM: $7,500 · HealthHELPING HORSE INC: $7,000 · HealthHOOVES OF HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $6,320 · HealthUPSIDE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $6,300 · HealthSoul Friends Inc: $5,095 · HealthEquine Assisted Development: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $8,100 · Recreation & SportsTHREE GAITS INC: $7,730 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5,650 · Recreation & SportsRACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM: $25,203 · AnimalsPBJ CONNECTIONS JEDLICKA: $6,300 · Youth DevelopmentGREAT AND SMALL: $5,400 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMS ON HORSEBACK: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,176,940Education$552,608Human Services$51,403Health$50,160Recreation & Sports$31,480Animals$25,203Youth Development$16,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION: $344,701 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $201,252 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $144,727 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $123,042 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $68,591 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM: $25,203 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHORSES HELP FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCornell University: $14,996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA: $11,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEquine Assisted Development: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $9,145 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetStable-Spirit: $8,800 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTherapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc: $8,100 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHREE GAITS INC: $7,730 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HORSE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMarion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: $6,991 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOOVES OF HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $6,320 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUPSIDE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $6,300 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPBJ CONNECTIONS JEDLICKA: $6,300 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $6,253 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5,650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT AND SMALL: $5,400 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFORWARD STRIDE: $5,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSoul Friends Inc: $5,095 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDREAMS ON HORSEBACK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds RACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM ↗
  • Who funds HORSES HELP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT OAK EQUINE ASSISTED PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Equine Assisted Development ↗
  • Who funds CAMELOT THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Stable-Spirit ↗
  • Who funds Therapeutic Riding of Tucson Inc ↗
  • Who funds THREE GAITS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds STABLE STRIDES FARM ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Oliver-Hoffmann Found…Christopher Reeve Fou…Mightycause Charitabl…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
Oliver-Hoffmann FoundationIL17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oliver-Hoffmann Foundation · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Quarter Horse Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Quarter Horse Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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