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Chesapeake Dressage Institute Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0174% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$45kAnimals$5kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLNESS HOUSE OF ANNAPOLIS$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%DRESSAGE AT DEVON: $2k → 6%EQUESTRIAN SPORT PRODUCTIONS: $33k → 11%USET FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $257 → 12%PVDA RIDE FOR LIFE: $500 → 6%DAYS END FARM: $500 → 6%WELLNESS HOUSE OF ANNAPOLIS: $10k → 6%TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $7k → 7%THOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES: $200 → 11%BROOKE USA: $1k → 15%DRESSAGE AT DEVON: $2k → 6%EQUESTRIAN SPORT PRODUCTIONS: $23k → 11%USET FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%PVDA RIDE FOR LIFE: $500 → 6%DAYS END FARM: $250 → 6%RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT: $200 → 6%TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $7k → 7%THOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES: $200 → 11%BROOKE USA: $250 → 15%DRESSAGE AT DEVON: $499 → 6%EQUESTRIAN SPORT PRODUCTIONS: $21k → 11%USET FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%PVDA RIDE FOR LIFE: $500 → 6%RETIRED RACEHORSE TRAINING PROJECT: $200 → 6%TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $5k → 7%THOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES: $200 → 11%UNITED STATES DRESSAGE: $450 → 15%DRESSAGE AT DEVON: $475 → 6%EQUESTRIAN SPORT PRODUCTIONS: $18k → 11%PVDA RIDE FOR LIFE: $500 → 6%LISA GRUEN: $12k → 6%TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $5k → 7%THOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES: $200 → 11%USDF: $3k → 15%RETIRED RACEHORSE TRAINING PROJECT: $200 → 6%TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $5k → 7%BROOKE USA: $2k → 15%RETIRED RACEHORSE TRAINING PROJECT: $200 → 6%TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $4k → 7%BROOKE USA: $1k → 15%USDF: $1k → 15%USDF: $350 → 15%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 10 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$159k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-8%

Still filing today

40%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
AnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2021 · $94k
  • TT
    TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $33k · revenue +951%
  • UF
    USET FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $450
  • VH
    VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $257 · revenue +79%
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.

1
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
2
Maryland a Haven for Horses

To provide a safe and dignified retirement for standardbred racehorses that no longer race.

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3
International Equine Information Inc
Philanthropy
4
World Ranch Horse Association
Animals
5
Washington International Horse Show

The Washingon International Horse Show is a historic, world class equestrian event that engages,entertains and educates the Washington DC community while supporting charitable and military causes

Recreation & Sports
6
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
7
Amagansett Horse Rescue Inc
Animals
8
Changing Leads Thoroughbred Retraining Project Inc
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9
Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses
Animals
10
Wisconsin Horse Alliance
—
11
Therapeutic Riding and Off-Track Rehabilitation Trotr

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

Animals
12
Akindale Rehabilitation & Land Conservation Fund

Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue is committed to the rescue, rehab and retraining of Thoroughbreds no longer able to race and to provide a safe haven for those unable to go on to new careers.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Horse Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Annapolis Wellness Corporation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $94,410 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUSET FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherUSET FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $11,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUSDF: $4,350 · Other+5 more: $4,800 · OtherTALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $32,800 · HealthTALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDIN…ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION: $10,000 · HealthANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORA…BROOKE USA INC: $3,750 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES INC: $800 · AnimalsRETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD: $200 · AnimalsDRESSAGE AT DEVON: $3,974 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $257 · Recreation & Sports
Other$130,110Health$42,800Animals$4,750Recreation & Sports$4,231

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $32,800 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDRESSAGE AT DEVON: $3,974 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKE USA INC: $3,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES INC: $800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
  • Who funds ANNAPOLIS WELLNESS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DRESSAGE AT DEVON ↗
  • Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD ↗
  • Who funds MARYLAND HORSE COUNCIL INC ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Chesapeake Dressage Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chesapeake Dressage Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 41%
  • Talisman Therapeutic Riding Inc: 41% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 16 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-PF 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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