South Carolina · Nonprofit
BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM
BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,912 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $431k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Big Oaks Rescue Farm does
Mission
Big Oaks Rescue Farm is a rescue and sanctuary to prevent suffering of equines and farm animals. Our goals are to provide a rescue and sanctuary for horses and farm animals who have been, or are in danger of becoming, abused or neglected. We work to provide them with a second chance of health, love, and to adopt them out to a loving home. We also promote public awaireness about animal care and animal welfare issues to the community. We also promote humane treatment and prevent abuse and neglect of animals. There were a total of 231 animals rescued and cared for at Big Oaks Rescue Farm in 2022. Expenses incurred as the direct care of these rescued animals included in form 990ex part 1 line 16 for a total of $124,714/ there were no grants paid.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Big Oaks Rescue Farm is a rescue and sanctuary to prevent suffering of equines and other farm animals. Our goals are to provide a rescue and sanctuary for horses and other farm animals who have been, or are in danger of becoming, abused or neglected. We work to provide them with a second chance of love, health, and to adopt them out to a loving home. We also promote public awareness about animal care and welfare issues to the community. We also promote humane treatment and prevent abuse and neglect of animals. There were a total of 290 animals cared for at Big Oaks Rescue Farm in 2025. Expenses incured as the direct care of these rescued animals included in form 990ez, part1, line 17, for a total of $142297
$142,297 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $142,297.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $4k to $28k (+677%).
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.
100% of BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Mary Moss
President executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $7k → $103k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM’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
BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 54% · 2021 42% · 2022 57% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM?
- BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,912 to it, the largest being LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $430,912 in grants to BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM?
- LESLIE L ALEXANDER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG OAKS RESCUE FARM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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