Ohio · Nonprofit
Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc
Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,857 to it, the largest being J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN ($94,880). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc does
Mission
To empower individuals with unique challenges through equine assisted activities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through therapeutic horseback riding, students in our TR classes and camps benefit from motor planning, improved reflexes and improved eye hand coordination. Horseback riding improves muscle strength throughout the body, and our individualized class activities enhance self-confidence and interpersonal connections with the instructors, volunteers and horses. All benefit from the enjoyment of equalizing opportunities all while being on the back of a horse. Our therapeutic program also encompasses the Equine Facilitated Learning. These programs enhance self-help skills and resiliency using our equine partners who act in the moment, reward positive interactions and offer a non-judgmental connection. Our Able Body Riding classes and camps may be a misnomer. Many of these riders could qualify for the Therapeutic Riding program, but perhaps their parents choose not to identify their children with disabilities or challenges. Other riders may be struggling with trauma, but do not have a diagnosis that puts a label on their challenges. Some of the ABR riders do qualify for the TR program, however, are more independent in riding their horses and can participate with less support. We served…
$101,581 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,581.
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 2021 to 2022, from $44k to $119k (+174%).
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.
58% of Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Linda Lake
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $38 → $79k.
3 of 6 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 Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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
Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 2023 87% — 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.
Where its funders are
91% of Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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
Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc?
- Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,857 to it, the largest being J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN ($94,880). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $129,857 in grants to Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc?
- J WILLIAM & MARY STRAKER CHARITABLE FDN is the largest funder on record, with $94,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Breaking Free Therapeutic Riding Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 6 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