Virginia · Nonprofit
HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA
HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,081,906 to it, the largest being KITAS AND LUTSKO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($295,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $981k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $669k
What Healing Strides of Virginia does
Mission
To promote wellness for people with personal challenges who can benefit from equine-assisted activities and therapies in a safe and supportive environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Therapeutic riding horsemanship program: 2024 has been a challenging year, with the rate of child and adult suicide increasing and the need for helping both young and old is ever increasing. The need is much more than the services that we are able to offer. We continue to place priority on growth and serving more and more people. With the horse being not only the equalizer but also the motivator for our participants we help as many people as we can. By giving them opportunity to thrive and grow in confidence, physical capacity and strength along with resilency and focus. We are serving 200 people a week and find that by serving those they are able to affect their families by their own healing and therefore their community also. We are aware of individuals that have stated our facility "saved their life" on a literal basis because of the connections that are made in our programming not only with our horses but also with our staff. Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy are still foundations of our clinical practice in conjunction with our local hospital system. We are in the process of growing this program to serve more people.
$1,036,019 spent$475,624 earned by the program100% of program spendingMental health, education and coaching: our mhec program grew considerably with serving the population of adults with substance abuse. We were able to serve a new 60 people a week in this program just with substance abuse, finding that we made a major change in their outlook and perspective for their life. We have had graduates of this program come back and share that they are still sober and that we made the difference. We also added an evidence based model, called brief strategic family therapy to our services and being the second licensed facility in the state and the only facility to add horses to the model. A rare accomplishment. We had the first therapist/coach become fully paneled in our state. Foster children and children of trauma are still our primary target and working with them individually and also with their families has shown to make changes that have become sustainable. We have grown our field trips and one time visits substantially and find that we are able to see children say their first words in a short period of time due to the quick relationship that is built with the horse. In both programs we have served over 12,000 horse/human interactions, 18,000 volunteer…
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,036,019.
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 $1.2M to $988k (−18%).
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: 2020 12% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Carol Young
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $11k → $353k.
4 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
26% 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 HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 52% · 2019 47% · 2020 20% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 60% — 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
62% of HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
64% of HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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 HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA?
- HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA (Virginia) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,081,906 to it, the largest being KITAS AND LUTSKO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($295,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,081,906 in grants to HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA?
- KITAS AND LUTSKO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALING STRIDES OF VIRGINIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 35 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