Montana · Nonprofit
CHINOOK HORSES
CHINOOK HORSES (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $512,101 to it, the largest being GT FOUNDATION ($182,919). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $512k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Chinook Horses does
Mission
We provide inclusive access for individuals and families to engage and learn outside traditional therapeutic and classroom environments, instill resiliency, and heal from trauma by practicing equine-facilitated activities and psychotherapy, regardless of their ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Despite a 28% decrease in medicaid, private insurance, and self-pay reimbursement, Chinook Horses continued to grow; expanding access, deepening impact, and showing up for those who need it most. Chinook Horses end the year with providing 816 session hours, with a total of 91 participants, and 68% of our budget went directly to providing services. 74% of the participants we serve are categorized as low income, 25% of the participants we serve are native american, and 78% of the clients we serve are youth. Our partnerships strengthened our reach by providing services to the students of journey academy and participants from friends of eastern montana, in partnership with the rocky mountain tribal leadership council. We also collaborated with the boys & girls club of yellowstone county, billings public schools, and the billings clinic. Every equine facilitated therapy session has a licensed mental health practitioner present. All facilitators are trained in eagala and/or natural lifemanship and/or transpersonal and body-oriented psychotherapy.
$96,026 spent$42,714 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $96,026.
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 2022 to 2023, from $23k to $75k (+219%).
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.
90% of CHINOOK HORSES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $1k → $213k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CHINOOK HORSES’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
CHINOOK HORSES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 50% · 2020 46% · 2021 69% · 2022 40% · 2023 37% — 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
40% of CHINOOK HORSES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
CHINOOK HORSES draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
CHINOOK HORSES has grown faster 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 CHINOOK HORSES
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
42% of spending goes to programs.
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 CHINOOK HORSES: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHINOOK HORSES?
- CHINOOK HORSES (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $512,101 to it, the largest being GT FOUNDATION ($182,919). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINOOK HORSES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $512,101 in grants to CHINOOK HORSES, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINOOK HORSES?
- GT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $182,919 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINOOK HORSES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Chinook Horses →
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 17 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