Florida · Nonprofit
GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED
GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,574 to it, the largest being SAINT BERNARD FOUNDATION INC ($42,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Gentle Carousel Incorporated does
Mission
Gentle Carousel is an award winning organization supporting children, seniors, their families and first responders facing challenging circumstances. Serving over 25,000 people per year.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses continues to support over 25,000 children and their families, seniors, first responders facing life challenging circumstances. Organization purchased custom transportation allowing for safer access to hospitals, schools, libraries and inner-city travel. Gentle Carousel promotes literacy through Reading with Horses.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $118k to $14k (−88%).
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 GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Jorge Garcia-Bengochea
President, Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $32k → $3k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED’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
GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 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
53% of GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $97k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
59%
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 GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED: 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 GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED?
- GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,574 to it, the largest being SAINT BERNARD FOUNDATION INC ($42,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $96,574 in grants to GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED?
- SAINT BERNARD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 7 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