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FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES

FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,715 to it, the largest being NKC FAMILY FOUNDATION ($122,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$173k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$350k
Net assets
$0
8/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Friends for Therapeutic Equine Activities does

Mission

To provide individuals with impairments a program that will serve as an alternative therapeutic program. The program seeks to meet the special needs of each program participant in a recreational setting.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide therapeutic horseback riding for people with physical, emotional, cognitive and or social challenges.

    $145,586 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $145,586.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($287k) Expenses 100 ($248k) Net assets 100 ($119k)2018 Revenue 92 ($265k) Expenses 123 ($305k) Net assets 69 ($82k)2019 Revenue 111 ($319k) Expenses 123 ($305k) Net assets 78 ($93k)2020 Revenue 87 ($250k) Expenses 122 ($302k) Net assets 35 ($42k)2021 Revenue 87 ($249k) Expenses 109 ($269k) Net assets 18 ($22k)2022 Revenue 110 ($315k) Expenses 111 ($276k) Net assets 51 ($61k)2023 Revenue 87 ($251k) Expenses 111 ($276k) Net assets 30 ($35k)2024 Revenue 33 ($94k) Expenses 58 ($143k) Net assets -12 ($-14233)2025 Revenue 60 ($173k) Expenses 64 ($159k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (64)Net assets (0)

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 $134k to $760k (+468%).

$134k
$760k
$768k
$707k
$697k
$682k
$642k
$616k
$0
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
’17
−$40k
’18
$14k
’19
−$51k
’20
−$20k
’21
$39k
’22
−$25k
’23
−$50k
’24
$14k
’25
0.6
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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Listed775556666
Joined·+0+0+0+0+4+0+0+0
No longer listed·02003000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $25k.

5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES’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

FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

38% 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 FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES.

35%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 55% · 2019 46% · 2020 71% · 2021 53% · 2022 77% · 2023 93% — 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

43% of FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

99% of FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
MO

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES: 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 FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES?
FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $349,715 to it, the largest being NKC FAMILY FOUNDATION ($122,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $349,715 in grants to FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES?
NKC FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $122,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS FOR THERAPEUTIC EQUINE ACTIVITIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 12 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