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HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY

HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,303,897 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($260,094). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
57
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$8.0M
29/57 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Horsepower Sanctuaries Inc Dba Redwings Horse Sanctuary does

Mission

To eliminate the causes of equine suffering through education and community outreach programs, rescue abused and neglected equines, and provide permanent sanctuary or selected foster homes for those equines.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To educate the public about the care and plight of horses, ponies, donkeys, mules and burros and to protect them from abuse and slaughter.

    $750,599 spent$5,497 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $750,599.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2018 Revenue 238 ($2.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.2M) Net assets 133 ($5.3M)2019 Revenue 141 ($1.5M) Expenses 126 ($1.3M) Net assets 136 ($5.4M)2020 Revenue 223 ($2.4M) Expenses 103 ($1.1M) Net assets 166 ($6.5M)2021 Revenue 98 ($1.1M) Expenses 113 ($1.2M) Net assets 162 ($6.4M)2022 Revenue 166 ($1.8M) Expenses 125 ($1.3M) Net assets 169 ($6.7M)2023 Revenue 108 ($1.2M) Expenses 148 ($1.6M) Net assets 155 ($6.1M)2024 Revenue 261 ($2.8M) Expenses 146 ($1.6M) Net assets 188 ($7.4M)2025 Revenue 180 ($1.9M) Expenses 145 ($1.6M) Net assets 202 ($8.0M)
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Revenue (180)Expenses (145)Net assets (202)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $4.0M to $5.4M (+34%).

$4.0M
$5.4M
$5.5M
$6.6M
$6.5M
$6.8M
$6.3M
$7.5M
$8.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$1.3M
’18
$157k
’19
$1.3M
’20
−$154k
’21
$432k
’22
−$426k
’23
$1.2M
’24
$371k
’25
2.4
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed989957111011
Joined·+5+3+1+0+2+4+2+3
No longer listed·62140032
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 19 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $72k → $163k.

7 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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

HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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

63% 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 HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY.

20%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 34% · 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 35% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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

26% of HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 19 states in all.

VT
ID
IL
MI
NY
WY
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
DE
AZ
NC
SC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

48% of spending goes to programs.

Program 48%Management 29%Fundraising 22%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

51%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 38 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Belinda Lee Lazzar Trust · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY?
HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY (California) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,303,897 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($260,094). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY have?
IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $1,303,897 in grants to HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $260,094 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 57 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