Utah · Nonprofit
Courage Reins
Courage Reins (Utah) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $941,271 to it, the largest being STERLING &SHELLI GARDNER FOUNDATION ($425,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Courage Reins has grown faster than half of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared funders
- Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernationalportfolio match
- Oliver-Hoffmann Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of Courage Reins’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $136k → $81k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Courage Reins’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
Courage Reins leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 63% · 2018 55% · 2019 53% · 2020 73% · 2021 30% · 2022 82% · 2023 68% — 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
29% of Courage Reins's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
72% of Courage Reins's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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. Your 27 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oliver-Hoffmann Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leeps Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Quarter Horse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Equestrian Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horses for Mental Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equus Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard Reed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Human-Animal Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lee Merrick Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCarthey Family Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
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 Courage Reins
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Courage Reins: 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 Courage Reins?
- Courage Reins (Utah) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $941,271 to it, the largest being STERLING &SHELLI GARDNER FOUNDATION ($425,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Courage Reins have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $941,271 in grants to Courage Reins, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Courage Reins?
- STERLING &SHELLI GARDNER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $425,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Courage Reins find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27funders 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