New Mexico · Nonprofit
A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,593 to it, the largest being CORRALES FRIENDS OF ANIMALS FOUNDATION DBA DENNIS FRIENDS FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $439k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $260k
- Net assets
- $14k
What A Chance of a Lifetime does
Mission
To help both horses and humans to heal by rescueing and provideing a sanctuary for starved, neglected and abused horses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rescued and provided compassionate training, rehabilitation, board, and shelter to numerous neglected, starved and abused horses.
$375,698 spent$5,083 earned by the program100% of program spendingProvided healing workshops and retreats for many individuals and groups with the horses to create a bond with the horses and gain an understanding of ones self through interacting with horses.
Provided one on one training sessions with individuals to gain intimate knowledge about horses and ones self.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $375,698.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $41k to $60k (+46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 58% · 2023 73% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $24k → $53k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 63% · 2023 48% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME?
- A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,593 to it, the largest being CORRALES FRIENDS OF ANIMALS FOUNDATION DBA DENNIS FRIENDS FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $259,593 in grants to A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME?
- CORRALES FRIENDS OF ANIMALS FOUNDATION DBA DENNIS FRIENDS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing