Maryland · Nonprofit
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,562,573 to it, the largest being MUSTANG FOUNDATION INC ($725,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 153
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd does
Mission
To save draft horses from slaughter, abuse, and neglect, and finding them adoptive homes as trail and schooling horses.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
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Gentle giants draft horse rescue furthers its mission by also assisting humane law enforcement organizations across the united states by offering control and custody during litigations of abuse and neglect, we are often able to offer this resource at no cost to the humane law enforcement organization, further empowering them to enforce animal welfare law and protect more horses. We also offer our rescue services to private owners of horses who find themselves unable to provide adequate nutrition and/or medical care to the animals they possess, preventing those animals from further neglect or suffering and keeping more horses out of the horse slaughter auction pipeline. Gentle giants operates several public safety net programs to assist animals in need, such as operation geld - a certificate based financial assistance for equine castrations within the state of maryland; maryland hay bank - which provides support of hay to private owners facing a temporary financial crisis to assist the horse owner during a brief period of need, and to keep horses in homes; euthanasia assistance - to financially provide for veterinary administered humane euthanasia of horses in extreme states of…
$7,065,626 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,065,626.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.7M to $9.5M (+42%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $63k → $585k.
24 of 153 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 153 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
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 21% · 2019 29% · 2020 17% · 2021 31% · 2022 23% · 2023 17% — 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
43% of GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 134 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 134 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 59 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD?
- GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,562,573 to it, the largest being MUSTANG FOUNDATION INC ($725,000). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD have?
- IRS filings report 153 organizations giving $3,562,573 in grants to GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD?
- MUSTANG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 153 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