Tennessee · Nonprofit
HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY
HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,677 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($166,237). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $623k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Horse Plus Humane Society does
Mission
Horse Plus Humane Society is the largest horse welfare organization in the united states, rescuing and sheltering more horses than any other horse welfare organization, based on the number of animals helped and adopted each year. We are an open admissions, full circle of life horse welfare organization and will never turn a horse away. Every year we help hundreds of horse trasition from a rough place in their life to a new start. Our wonderful team of veterinarians and horse trainers work with the horses to help them become happy, healthy and adoptable. Hourse plus humane society has many programs to help horses and their owners thoughout the united states.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rescue, shelter and adopt into loving homes from slaughter pipeline auctions, preventing the horses from being shipped out of the country for slaughter. Also accept owner surrenders, law enforcement seizures, abandoned horses and shelter transfer horses.
$1,838,766 spent93% of program spendingFull circle of life mentoring and grant progam. Mentored pony tales rescue and rehab in wisconsin to become a full circle of life shelter. Also included is the horse rescue heroes tv program.
We buy horses - a program where horses in danger of shipping to slaughter are purchased brfore their desperate owners sell them to a kill buyer or horse trader who will take them directly to an auction.
$147,002 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,985,768.
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 2020 to 2021, from $657k to $1.9M (+186%).
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.
99% of HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $6k → $96k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY’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
HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY 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
72% 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 HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 89% · 2020 74% · 2021 53% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% — 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
20% of HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
69% of HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY'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 $195k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY: 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 HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY?
- HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,677 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($166,237). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $622,677 in grants to HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $166,237 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORSE PLUS HUMANE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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