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BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS
BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,687 to it, the largest being AMERICAN TRAILS ($74,032). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,117 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,117 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Twin County Community Foundationlocal
- Virginia Equine Allianceportfolio match
- Thoroughbred Charities of America Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11k → $49k.
From the IRS filings of BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS’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
BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
97% 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 BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS draws 100% 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 267 organizations that share them.
- Twin County Community FoundationlocalVA · funds 15 organizations near you
- Virginia Equine Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thoroughbred Charities of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- USA Equestrian Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathryn J Clark Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Quarter Horse Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William C & Virginia M Blandford Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equus Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The American Donkey Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginias United Land Trustsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William M Backer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Public support
100%
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 BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS: 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 BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS?
- BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,687 to it, the largest being AMERICAN TRAILS ($74,032). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $87,687 in grants to BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS?
- AMERICAN TRAILS is the largest funder on record, with $74,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACK COUNTRY HORSEMEN OF THE VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing