Virginia · Nonprofit
American Horse Council Inc
American Horse Council Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $880,113 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES TROTTING ASSOCIATION ($549,440). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $731k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $880k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What American Horse Council Inc does
Mission
To protect and strengthen the US Horse Industry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide members with information regarding issues affecting the horse industry. Produce publications and hold meetings which provide a forum for members to share ideas. The American Horse Council advises the horse industry about federal legislation, regulations, and policies and represents it before congress and federal regulatory agencies. It informs the public, government entities, the media, and the horse industry about the equine industry's important role in the economic, sporting, agricultural and recreational lives of Americans. It serves as a facilitator for the industry to communicate with all segments on issues of national importance. It serves as a forum for its members to participate in all of these activities.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.6M (+19%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Marilyn Breur-Bertera
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $80k → $104k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money American Horse Council Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of American Horse Council 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.
How concentrated its funding is
American Horse Council Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 American Horse Council Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 73% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.
“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
American Horse Council Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding American Horse Council Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $296k on record — $276k federal, $20k state.
- Department of Agriculture$276k
- NJ$20k
- FL$111
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like American Horse Council 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Horse Council Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Horse Council 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 Horse Council Inc?
- American Horse Council Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $880,113 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES TROTTING ASSOCIATION ($549,440). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Horse Council Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $880,113 in grants to American Horse Council Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Horse Council Inc?
- UNITED STATES TROTTING ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $549,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Horse Council Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing