· Private foundation
Fire Horse Refuge Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NIRVANA MUSTANG SANCTUARY | $15,405 |
| HEART OF THE WILD EQUINE RESCUE NSC | $9,465 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,406 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,672 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,530 |
| DIAMOND BAR RANCH INC | $1,280 |
| HABITAT FOR HORSES | $1,213 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,126 |
| Individual grant recipient | $910 |
| SWEET GRASS ADVOCACY FOR NORTH AMER | $908 |
| SWEET BAY EQUINE RESCUE OF POPLARVI | $675 |
| COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION | $624 |
| THE RED HORSE RUNNING EQUINE FOUNDA | $538 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400 |
| CHRYSTAL MCHENRY RUSTIC C RANCH | $342 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NMNIRVANA MUSTANG SANCTUARY2× · 2024–2025 · $33k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $7k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $850
- ASALL SEATED IN A BARNone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
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.
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.
Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
501c3 horse rescue
Rescue horses from slaughter and neglect and find homes for them.
Rescue, Rehabilitate, train and try to adopt horses out that are healthy to permanent homes. We bring in horses that are seized by the counties within our state of Illinois, we take in owner surrenders when folks cannnot care and feed for…
Animal rescue, we rescue equines from the slaughter pipeline and rehibilitation
Equine rescue and rehabilitation
rescue abused neglected equines of all types of condition we provide all care and a final home for them to live out remainder of days as opposed to going to slaughter
Prevention of animal abuse and neglect in the United States. In our fourth year of operation, we were able to save over numerous horses, sheep, pigs, donkeys, mules, cows, chickens, dogs, cats and birds. This was accomplished though our…
rescue rehab retraining and rehoming for homeless and neglected equine and canine
How this is measured
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 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fire Horse Refuge Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fire Horse Refuge Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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