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GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD

GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,285,927 to it, the largest being MUSTANG FOUNDATION INC ($725,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$9.3M
Revenue FY2024
148
Funders on record
$3.3M
Grants received
$9.0M
Net assets
79/148 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,558 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve5.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,558 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 94 ($4.7M) Expenses 115 ($4.0M) Net assets 125 ($3.5M)2019 Revenue 83 ($4.2M) Expenses 117 ($4.1M) Net assets 128 ($3.6M)2020 Revenue 100 ($5.0M) Expenses 125 ($4.4M) Net assets 150 ($4.2M)2021 Revenue 154 ($7.8M) Expenses 166 ($5.9M) Net assets 217 ($6.1M)2022 Revenue 150 ($7.5M) Expenses 194 ($6.8M) Net assets 242 ($6.8M)2023 Revenue 147 ($7.4M) Expenses 201 ($7.1M) Net assets 258 ($7.3M)2024 Revenue 186 ($9.3M) Expenses 224 ($7.9M) Net assets 317 ($9.0M)
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Revenue (186)Expenses (224)Net assets (317)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,654 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
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$709k
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$89k
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$617k
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$1.9M
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$693k
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$349k
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$1.5M
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $63k → $585k.

23 of 148 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)51% 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 148 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 22% 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

55% 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.

22%
largest funder
43%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 21% · 2019 29% · 2020 17% · 2021 31% · 2022 9% · 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.

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

51% of GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 33 states.

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

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 148 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 6%Fundraising 14%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

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Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Southdown Community Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: 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 GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD?
GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD (Maryland) receives grants from 148 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,285,927 to it, the largest being MUSTANG FOUNDATION INC ($725,000). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD have?
IRS filings report 148 organizations giving $3,285,927 in grants to GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD, 79 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 148funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing