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North Carolina Horse Council

The NORTH CAROLINA HORSE COUNCIL is a nonprofit agricultural orgainzation created for the purpose of encouraging, promoting, and developing the horse industry in north carolina.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$191kRecreation & Sports$133kAnimals$85kEnvironment$58kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$10kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $12,963, the rows itemized in this filing. The $34,492 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,529 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.
$7,937
Median grant
1
States reached
$401k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN$7,937
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$5,026
02The need
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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 (FY20–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%I AM HERD: $5k → 19%BOYS AND GIRLS HOMES: $5k → 21%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of North Carolina Horse Council’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 82%.

North Carolina Horse Councillessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$213k · 4 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
20

Total granted

$213k
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+28%

Still filing today

25%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NS
    NC STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $111k
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $48k
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE HORSEMANS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $30k

Funded once

  • PL
    PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • 4
    4HLAS
    one grant, 2020 · $27k
  • JL
    JORDAN LAKE TRAILS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding of Nw Colorado
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2
Therapeutic Riding and Off-Track Rehabilitation Trotr

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

Animals
3
Horses Healing Humans Inc

Providing high-quality education and healing therapeutic services that incorporate the physical and emotional benefits of horses. The specific educational, psychological, and therapeutic goals of each client are addressed in a physically…

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4
Carolina Therapeutic Riding Inc

Connecting humans with horses to transform lives and bring hope.

Animals
5
Stormwalker Ranch Equine
Human Services
6
Healing Horse Therapy Center Inc

Equine assisted therapy

Youth Development
7
Horse Protection Society of Nc Inc

To make the world a better place for horses through education, rescue, and rehabilitation. hps provides a sanctuary of last resort for unwanted, neglected, and abused equine.

Animals
8
North Point Equine Sanctuary Llc
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9
Happy Trails Horse Rescue

Happy Trails Horse Rescue, located in Bend, Oregon, is dedicated to the protection of horses and their quality of life, to be free from abuse, neglect, abandonment, slaughter, or early euthanasia without just cause. While we strive to…

Animals
10
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
11
Lillies of the Field Equine Rescue
Animals
12
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horses and Humans Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is I Am Herd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 25 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $110,950 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $47,504 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYBLUE RIDGE HORSEMANS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE HORSEMANS ASSOCIATION4HLAS: $26,994 · Other4HLASJORDAN LAKE TRAILS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherJORDAN LAKE TRAILS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONBACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF PISGAH: $20,000 · OtherBACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF PISGAHBACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF BLUE RIDGE: $13,500 · Other+4 more: $35,804 · Other+4 morePIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY: $50,000 · EnvironmentPIEDMONT LAND C…Foothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc: $11,400 · EnvironmentFoothills Eques…Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards: $7,937 · EnvironmentSouthern Appala…VICTORY FARM INC: $24,900 · HealthVICTORY FAR…American Horse Council Foundation Inc: $17,790 · HealthAmerican Ho…Prancing Horse Inc: $7,700 · HealthPrancing Ho…NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · EducationFREE REIN INC: $9,613 · EducationELKIN VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsHORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,175 · AnimalsTrail of Faith Farms: $5,140 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC: $5,130 · Human ServicesI AM HERD: $5,108 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$309,752Environment$69,337Health$50,390Education$31,613Recreation & Sports$15,000Animals$10,315Human Services$10,238Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVICTORY FARM INC: $24,900 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Horse Council Foundation Inc: $17,790 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetELKIN VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFoothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc: $11,400 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFREE REIN INC: $9,613 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards: $7,937 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPrancing Horse Inc: $7,700 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,175 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTrail of Faith Farms: $5,140 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC: $5,130 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI AM HERD: $5,108 over 1y, 9.5% 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.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Duke Energy FoundationNC12.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 North Carolina Horse Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Horse Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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