Ohio · Nonprofit
HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $919,974 to it, the largest being Greater Houston Community Foundation ($700,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,307 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,307 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- The Foundation for the Horse Fka the Aaep Foundation Incportfolio match
- Freedom Reign Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
92% of HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $381k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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
HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2019 88% · 2020 62% · 2021 41% · 2022 25% · 2023 92% — broadly stable.
“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
33% of HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
83% of HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION'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 $158k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $762k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- The Foundation for the Horse Fka the Aaep Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Reign Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Equestrian Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equus Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- USA Equestrian Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Quarter Horse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary Gaylord McClean Foundation (Formerly Mary Gaylord Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thoroughbred Charities of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davis-McCullough Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Equine Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zoetis Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 24 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $919,974 to it, the largest being Greater Houston Community Foundation ($700,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $919,974 in grants to HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- Greater Houston Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORSES AND HUMANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing