Texas · Nonprofit
HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC
HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,000 to it, the largest being OVERLAKE FOUNDATION INC ($304,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $311k
- Net assets
- $226k
What Heart of Texas Therapeutic Riding Center Inc does
Mission
To improve the quality of life for children and adults with physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, social, and/or spiritual needs by providing activities and therapy through the interaction with horses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Professional association of therapeutic horsemanship international (p.a.t.h) certified riding instructors work with children and adults with special needs to develop and enhance both body and mind through therapeutic riding. Therapeutic riding is a great outlet for those with special needs to grow physically and mentally while enjoying nature with friends, family and instructors.
$79,713 spent77% of program spendingMassage therapy is also available from individual therapists to the organization's special needs clients to assist in their riding therapy and day-to-day activities. Massage therapy has been shown to loosen and relax painfully tight muscles due to various ailments, allowing those with special needs to improve upon their functional skills while promoting relaxation and well-being, reducing stress, improving sleep, and developing deeper emotional connections with family members and friends.
$23,507 spent23% of program spendingAquatics therapy is an additional therapy for the special needs clients to assist in their riding therapy to work on fitness, strength, weight loss, muscular strength or muscular endurance. Students may learn to swim as they learn water safety. Focusing on a task and following directions using modified arm and leg movements are pre-requisites to learning to swim.
$685 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,905.
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 2018 to 2019, from $315k to $279k (−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.
40% of HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Shirley Wills
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC’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
HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC?
- HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $311,000 to it, the largest being OVERLAKE FOUNDATION INC ($304,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $311,000 in grants to HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC?
- OVERLAKE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $304,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEART OF TEXAS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 3 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