Kentucky · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC
AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $450 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $926k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $450
- Net assets
- $421k
What American Farriers Association Inc does
Mission
The american farrier's association was established to improve the welfare of the horse through continuing farrier education, further the professional development of farriers and to provide leadership and resources for the benefit of the farrier industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As an internationally recognized organization of farriers the afa currently has members in all 50 states, as well as in 13 additional countries. The largest program service is in membership dues. Categories of membership include regular, associate, student chapter, lifetime and honorary. The foundation of the afa is its voluntary certification program. Farriers are provided the opportunity to test at various levels to receive certification. Annually over 500 farriers participate at certification sites across the us and canada. Membership also provides educational opportunities for farriers to attend pre-certification workshops. Members also receive the benefits of an ad&d insurance policy as part of their membership.
$763,402 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $763,402.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $269k to $339k (+26%).
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.
44% of AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $90 → $64.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $450 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC's revenue grew 46% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC: 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 AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $450 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $450 in grants to AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FARRIERS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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