Michigan · Nonprofit
CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,457,957 to it, the largest being SUZANNE UPJOHN DELANO PARISH FOUNDATION ($850,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Cheff Therapeutic Riding Center does
Mission
The Cheff Therapeutic Riding Center was incorporated january 29, 1960, as a michigan non-profit corporation. The purpose of the organization is to improve lives through the therapeutic use of horses. The organization opened in 1970 as the united states' first therapeutic riding center built specifically to serve the disabled. The cheff center focuses on what individuals can accomplish, not on their limitations. Participation is available to riders of all ages and abilities. Cheff center clients include: at-risk children, mentally and emotionally impaired, sight or hearing impaired, down syndrome, ms/md/cerebral palsy, autistic/learning disabled, cystic fibrosis/cancer/brain injuries, add/adhd, and other disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Therapeutic riding - year-round riding classes. Therapeutic riding challenges individuals to achieve and improve physically and mentally. The benefits include: "increased muscle strength "improved confidence; increased self-esteem "increased balance and mobility "ability to stay on task; focused "increased range of motion "behavioral improvements
$580,438 spentof which $12,877 as grants$161,789 earned by the program93% of program spendingHippotherapy - literally meaning "treatment with the help of the horse." the benefits provided by hippotherapy include: "increased mobility "positive effect on respiratory function "improvement of symmetry, body awareness, spinal orientation and strength of posture "improves self esteem, confidence, motivation and increases attention span
$43,430 spent$2,970 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $623,868.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.0M to $8.1M (+16%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 6% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $58k → $326k.
6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 60%; 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: 2017 28% · 2018 29% · 2019 29% · 2020 30% · 2021 28% · 2022 90% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
96% of CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: 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 CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER?
- CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,457,957 to it, the largest being SUZANNE UPJOHN DELANO PARISH FOUNDATION ($850,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,457,957 in grants to CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER?
- SUZANNE UPJOHN DELANO PARISH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEFF THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 38 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