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CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC

CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,045 to it, the largest being THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE ($96,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$312k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$220k
Net assets
$19k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Circle a Home for Horses Inc does

Mission

Circle a home for horses, inc. Is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk children and rescued equines through paired bonding, learning, and fellowship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Circle a home for horses, inc. Is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk children and rescued equines through paired bonding, learning, and fellowship.

    $312,363 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Circle a home for horses, inc. Is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk children and rescued equines through paired bonding, learning, and fellowship.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,363.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($452k) Expenses 100 ($455k) Net assets -948 ($-80805)2020 Revenue 77 ($348k) Expenses 89 ($403k) Net assets -1584 ($-135024)2021 Revenue 85 ($383k) Expenses 56 ($253k) Net assets -65 ($-5550)2022 Revenue 45 ($205k) Expenses 44 ($200k) Net assets -14 ($-1229)2023 Revenue 60 ($272k) Expenses 58 ($262k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2024 Revenue 70 ($315k) Expenses 65 ($295k) Net assets 329 ($28k)2025 Revenue 69 ($312k) Expenses 71 ($321k) Net assets 225 ($19k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (69)Expenses (71)Net assets (225)Peer revenue range

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 $38k to $54k (+42%).

$22k
$10k
$22k
$24k
$38k
$54k
$43k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

79% of CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’19
−$54k
’20
$129k
’21
$4k
’22
$10k
’23
$20k
’24
−$9k
’25
0.3
months of
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.

Chief executive

Alicia Mahar

President/CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed7758889
Joined·+0+2+5+3+0+1
No longer listed·042300
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $23k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC’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

CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC.

44%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 45% · 2022 65% · 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.

WA
CA
CO
KY
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC?
CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,045 to it, the largest being THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE ($96,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $220,045 in grants to CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC?
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $96,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CIRCLE A HOME FOR HORSES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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