South Dakota · Nonprofit
GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY
GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY (South Dakota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,475 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ($23,500). 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 FY2023
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $-25351
What Gentle Spirit Horses Rescue & Sanctuary does
Mission
Gentle Spirit Horses is a rescue and sanctuary for horses based out of South Dakota. Our mission is to provide assistance to neglected, abused and unwanted horses, and through outreach and education, promote responsible horse ownership.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Gentle Spirit Horses provided care for an average of 60 horses at any given time. 39 new horses were brought in throughout 2023 and 39 horses left our care.
$0 spentThe Bug Club children's program provided hands-on education and experiences to over 60 children, promoting responsible horsemanship and long term improvement to horse welfare in South Dakota. Horse care expenses for horses in this program provided under the first service accomplishment, with additional expenses listed here.
$0 spentThe Dakota Showdown Horse Trainers Challenge matches rescue horses with trainers to increase their adoptability.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $25k to $10k (−63%).
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.
92% of GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Tiffany Ring
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $29k → $505.
4 of 8 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 SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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 SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 53% · 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 SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY has grown faster than half of the 6,280 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,280 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY: 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 SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY?
- GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY (South Dakota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,475 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ($23,500). 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 SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $65,475 in grants to GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY?
- THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENTLE SPIRIT HORSES RESCUE & SANCTUARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 8 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