California · Nonprofit
ELSA INC
ELSA INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,842 to it, the largest being HOLLYWOOD CHARITY HORSE SHOW ($78,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Elsa Inc does
Mission
ELSA (acronym for Experience Learning Support w/ Animals) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization serving children, teens and young adults with disabilities through the benefits of human-animal interactions (HAI) and equine-assisted activities. Since programs began in 2010, ELSA has served over 1,700 individuals with disabilities including autism and other special needs, and their families, teachers or coaches from Los Angeles, Malibu, San Fernando Valley and Conejo Valley communities (all located in LA County). ELSA's programs immerse participants in the natural environment of the ranch, providing them with empowering equine and animal connections using a carefully tailored curriculum inspired by emerging research on the benefits of human-animal interactions. Our equine activities are guided by the methodologies of the Equine-Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA), PATH International (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship) as well as Natural Horsemanship techniques
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Accomplishments:due to covid-19 restrictions,the organization was limited in its ability to operate and maintain all of its charitable activities. Contributions were nominal, and only a small amount of fund raising was allowed. Hopefully, 2021 will see less restrictions due to covid-19, and the organization can get back to normal operations. Even though the organization was restricted from most of its activities, it still continued to accomplish the following:received first grant from autism speaks in 2019. Hopefully will continue in 2021.was named for the seventh consecutive year beneficiary to the william shatner charity horse show.continued a new program "therapeutic horsemanship" for youth and young adults with special needs.partnered with the help group's bridgeport vocational education center, a campus for high schoolers with disabilities. Partnered with the malibu boys and girls club, providing ranch field trips.will receive funds in 2021 from the optimist club of pacific palisades to host pacific palisades charter high school special education students for ranch field trips.worked for a seventh year with community partner, lausd's miller career and transition center,…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $14k to $8k (−45%).
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 ELSA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $28k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 ELSA 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
ELSA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ELSA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ELSA INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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
ELSA INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,774 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like ELSA 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 ELSA INC: 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 ELSA INC?
- ELSA INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,842 to it, the largest being HOLLYWOOD CHARITY HORSE SHOW ($78,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELSA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $96,842 in grants to ELSA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELSA INC?
- HOLLYWOOD CHARITY HORSE SHOW is the largest funder on record, with $78,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELSA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 3 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