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FreeHorse Arts

FreeHorse Arts (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,475 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$156k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$61k
Net assets
$46k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What FreeHorse Arts does

Mission

FreeHorse Arts customizes inclusive and integrative arts education, nature-based programming and equine experiential learning for people with diverse abilities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. FreeHorse Arts Live: Weekly iniperson classes in Richmond VA for adults of all abilities culminiating in bi-annual public perfomances that integrate artistic exeperiences. FreeHorse Arts Horse Sense and Healthy Herd: Monthly arts and nature based experiential learning opportunities that includes observing and interacting with horses in nature. FreeHorse Arts InterConnected: Weekly collaborative arts and nature based for adults of diverse abilities. This program expands access to innovative arts nationwide.

    $83,088 spent
    70% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $25,818 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $9,270 spent
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $118,176.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($104k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2022 Revenue 159 ($157k) Expenses 127 ($132k) Net assets 347 ($35k)2023 Revenue 118 ($116k) Expenses 121 ($125k) Net assets 257 ($26k)2024 Revenue 180 ($177k) Expenses 146 ($152k) Net assets 503 ($51k)2025 Revenue 158 ($156k) Expenses 155 ($161k) Net assets 449 ($46k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (158)Expenses (155)Net assets (449)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 2021 to 2022, from $10k to $40k (+297%).

$10k
$40k
$26k
$51k
$46k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

66% of FreeHorse Arts’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’21
$25k
’22
−$9k
’23
$25k
’24
−$5k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $31k → $10k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 FreeHorse Arts’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

FreeHorse Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

89% 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 FreeHorse Arts.

49%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 65% · 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

89% of FreeHorse Arts's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states.

CA
VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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

FreeHorse Arts has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

72%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FreeHorse Arts?
FreeHorse Arts (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,475 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FreeHorse Arts have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $61,475 in grants to FreeHorse Arts, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FreeHorse Arts?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FreeHorse Arts 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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