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EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY

EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,851,320 to it, the largest being RUTH ST JOHN & JOHN DUNHAM WEST FOUNDATION INC ($154,500). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
60
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$2.5M
36/60 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 55%
01What it does

What Exceptional Equestrians Company does

Mission

Improving lives through the healing power of horses.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The program provided skilled, quality therapy/hippotherapy services provided by licensed and specially trained professionals. All participants are assessed by a licensed therapist to determine appropriate program participation, and to develop individualized goals and objectives. In 2025, 3,303 hippotherapy sessions were provided to individuals and groups. Participants include children and adults with physical, cognitive, sensory and/or mental health needs. Progress toward goal achievement is determined via objective testing, observation, and quarterly reporting. The adaptive riding program offers therapeutic movement of the equine while teaching basic horsemanship skills. Adaptive riding offers an opportunity for skill progression and advancement as goals are met in hippotherapy. This program is led by a path certified instructor and monitored by a hippotherapy clinical specialist. In 2025, adaptive riding participants were provided a total of 435 sessions. The taking the lead program works with individuals struggling with emotional well-being and mental health. Led by occupational therapists and an equine specialist in mental health, the taking the lead program addresses…

    $517,268 spent$340,292 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $517,268.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($389k) Expenses 100 ($375k) Net assets 100 ($501k)2018 Revenue 98 ($379k) Expenses 107 ($402k) Net assets 95 ($478k)2019 Revenue 103 ($399k) Expenses 128 ($481k) Net assets 82 ($413k)2020 Revenue 149 ($581k) Expenses 136 ($508k) Net assets 97 ($486k)2021 Revenue 210 ($817k) Expenses 142 ($531k) Net assets 154 ($773k)2022 Revenue 177 ($687k) Expenses 162 ($607k) Net assets 170 ($853k)2023 Revenue 507 ($2.0M) Expenses 195 ($733k) Net assets 418 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 262 ($1.0M) Expenses 217 ($813k) Net assets 459 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 260 ($1.0M) Expenses 217 ($812k) Net assets 499 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (260)Expenses (217)Net assets (499)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 2022 to 2023, from $882k to $2.1M (+141%).

$508k
$479k
$430k
$512k
$797k
$882k
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.5M
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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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 27% · 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
−$23k
’18
−$81k
’19
$73k
’20
$287k
’21
$80k
’22
$1.2M
’23
$204k
’24
$200k
’25
16
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.

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Listed101111121210101316
Joined·+3+4+3+1+6+0+6+8
No longer listed·24218035
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $57k → $389k.

11 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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

EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

34% 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 EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY.

8%
largest funder
23%
top three
~21
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 45% · 2019 28% · 2020 20% · 2021 10% · 2022 13% · 2023 26% — 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

59% of EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

78% of EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $507k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 25%Fundraising 11%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

82%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY?
EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,851,320 to it, the largest being RUTH ST JOHN & JOHN DUNHAM WEST FOUNDATION INC ($154,500). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY have?
IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $1,851,320 in grants to EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY?
RUTH ST JOHN & JOHN DUNHAM WEST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $154,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 60 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