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American Therapeutic Riding Center

American Therapeutic Riding Center (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,282 to it, the largest being THE MELKUS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($37,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$145k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$67k
Net assets
$6k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What American Therapeutic Riding Center does

Mission

The American Therapeutic Riding Center improves physically and emotionally challenged people through equine-facilitated therapy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. We serviced approximately 150 clients/riders with various physical physical, emotional and mental challenges through equine-assisted services.

    $131,989 spent$65,356 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $131,989.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 100 ($84k)2018 Revenue 119 ($212k) Expenses 107 ($190k) Net assets 126 ($106k)2019 Revenue 56 ($99k) Expenses 97 ($173k) Net assets 39 ($32k)2020 Revenue 93 ($165k) Expenses 94 ($167k) Net assets 36 ($30k)2021 Revenue 125 ($223k) Expenses 118 ($211k) Net assets 51 ($43k)2022 Revenue 100 ($178k) Expenses 110 ($195k) Net assets 30 ($25k)2023 Revenue 127 ($226k) Expenses 109 ($194k) Net assets 68 ($57k)2024 Revenue 103 ($183k) Expenses 119 ($212k) Net assets 32 ($27k)2025 Revenue 81 ($145k) Expenses 100 ($178k) Net assets 7 ($6k)
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Revenue (81)Expenses (100)Net assets (7)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $106k to $33k (−69%).

$84k
$106k
$33k
$30k
$43k
$25k
$57k
$27k
$6k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

55% of American Therapeutic Riding Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$194
’17
$22k
’18
−$73k
’19
−$2k
’20
$13k
’21
−$17k
’22
$31k
’23
−$29k
’24
−$33k
’25
0.4
months of
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.

Chief executive

Denise Ward

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00001000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Therapeutic Riding Center’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 Therapeutic Riding Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

37% 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 Therapeutic Riding Center.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 71% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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 Therapeutic Riding Center draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 3 states in all.

NJ
TN
OK

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $252 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

American Therapeutic Riding Center's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

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Questions and answers

Who funds American Therapeutic Riding Center?
American Therapeutic Riding Center (Oklahoma) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,282 to it, the largest being THE MELKUS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($37,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does American Therapeutic Riding Center have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $67,282 in grants to American Therapeutic Riding Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of American Therapeutic Riding Center?
THE MELKUS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like American Therapeutic Riding Center find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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