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Front Range Equine Rescue

Front Range Equine Rescue (Virginia) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $955,825 to it, the largest being KNOPF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
74
Grants received
$956k
Net assets
$13M
43/74 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Front Range Equine Rescue does

Mission

To prevent the abuse and neglect of horses through rescue and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Front Range Equine Rescue's educational and rescue programs combine to prevent the abuse/neglect of horses. Program efforts include direct rescue of horses in need, rehabilitation, evaluation/, sanctuary and retirement, fire/disaster evacuation, save the wild horses campaign, sponsor-a-horse, ban horse slaughter campaign and events designed to educate horse enthusiasts on a wide variety of horse care topics and responsible horse ownership including how to safely rehome a horse. Website, email, news blog and social media (facebook) provide alerts and updates on horses, activities and abuse issues. Hundreds of horses are assisted through rescue efforts with thousands of others impacted by education, advocacy and legal efforts where appropriate.

    $1,128,064 spentof which $150,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,128,064.

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 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 161 ($2.5M) Expenses 91 ($1.1M) Net assets 140 ($4.8M)2019 Revenue 146 ($2.3M) Expenses 101 ($1.3M) Net assets 173 ($5.9M)2020 Revenue 106 ($1.7M) Expenses 76 ($949k) Net assets 194 ($6.6M)2021 Revenue 121 ($1.9M) Expenses 83 ($1.0M) Net assets 218 ($7.4M)2022 Revenue 174 ($2.7M) Expenses 89 ($1.1M) Net assets 263 ($8.9M)2023 Revenue 144 ($2.3M) Expenses 86 ($1.1M) Net assets 308 ($10M)2024 Revenue 134 ($2.1M) Expenses 94 ($1.2M) Net assets 347 ($12M)2025 Revenue 158 ($2.5M) Expenses 104 ($1.3M) Net assets 383 ($13M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (104)Net assets (383)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 $7.5M to $9.1M (+21%).

$3.4M
$4.9M
$6.0M
$6.7M
$7.5M
$9.1M
$11M
$12M
$13M
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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

96% of Front Range Equine Rescue’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$326k
’17
$1.4M
’18
$1.0M
’19
$720k
’20
$858k
’21
$1.6M
’22
$1.2M
’23
$936k
’24
$1.2M
’25
95
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.

Chief executive

Marion Nagle

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed87777777
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0·+0
No longer listed·10000·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $18k → $164k.

10 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Front Range Equine Rescue’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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

Front Range Equine Rescue has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

39% 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 Front Range Equine Rescue.

16%
largest funder
42%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 21% · 2019 42% · 2020 23% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% — 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

51% of Front Range Equine Rescue's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

Front Range Equine Rescue draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 23 states in all.

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
DE
AZ
NC
OK
TX
FL

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

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’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $335k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Front Range Equine Rescue runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve94.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Front Range Equine Rescue

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 6%Fundraising 7%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 49 states

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dancer's Legacy Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Front Range Equine Rescue?
Front Range Equine Rescue (Virginia) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $955,825 to it, the largest being KNOPF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Front Range Equine Rescue have?
IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $955,825 in grants to Front Range Equine Rescue, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Front Range Equine Rescue?
KNOPF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Front Range Equine Rescue 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.

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 74 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