North Carolina · Nonprofit
BRIGHT STAR STABLES
BRIGHT STAR STABLES (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,016 to it, the largest being BAXTER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($22,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRIGHT STAR STABLES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Person County United Fund Inclocal
- The Leeps Foundation Incportfolio match
- Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernationalportfolio match
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.
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 BRIGHT STAR STABLES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $8k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 BRIGHT STAR STABLES’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
BRIGHT STAR STABLES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2020 90% · 2021 98% · 2022 56% · 2023 62% — 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
BRIGHT STAR STABLES draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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.
- Person County United Fund InclocalNC · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Leeps Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Quarter Horse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oliver-Hoffmann Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Equestrian Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equus Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horses for Mental Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thoroughbred Charities of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathryn J Clark Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Retirement Management Accountportfolio 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 BRIGHT STAR STABLES
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
70%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHT STAR STABLES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR STABLES?
- BRIGHT STAR STABLES (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,016 to it, the largest being BAXTER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ($22,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHT STAR STABLES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $45,016 in grants to BRIGHT STAR STABLES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHT STAR STABLES?
- BAXTER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHT STAR STABLES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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