South Carolina · Nonprofit
HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS)
HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) (South Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $731,286 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($412,568). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $426k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $731k
- Net assets
- $509k
What Halter (Healing and Learning Through Equine Relationships) does
Mission
Halter improves the lives of children with challenges through equine assisted services, education and research. Services include: therapeutic riding, equine assisted learning/coaching and space-use contract services for physical, occupational and speech therapy. Equine assisted activites teach children how to build healthy relationships, self-regulate their emotions,other social, emotional skills and behaviors and learn other skills that transfer from horses into the home, school, and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Halter improves the lives of children with challenges through equine assisted services, education and research. Services include: therapeutic riding, equine assisted learning/coaching and space-use contract services for physical, occupational and speech therapy. Equine assisted activites teach children how to build healthy relationships, self-regulate their emotions, other social, emotional skills and behaviors and learn other skills that transfer from horses into the home, school, and community.
$342,023 spent$109,579 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $342,023.
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.
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 $630k to $560k (−11%).
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 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Jesse White
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $33k → $98k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS)’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
HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 39% · 2019 44% · 2020 46% · 2021 46% · 2022 61% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
64% of HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
57% of HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS)'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 $312k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $419k 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.
Organizations like HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS)
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 Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS)?
- HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) (South Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $731,286 to it, the largest being Spartanburg County Foundation ($412,568). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $731,286 in grants to HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS), 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS)?
- Spartanburg County Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $412,568 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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