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HORSES OF HOPE INC

HORSES OF HOPE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,019 to it, the largest being THE HAMER FOUNDATION ($97,395). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$-243549
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$139k
Net assets
$223k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Horses of Hope Inc does

Mission

To promote the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social well-being of those with special needs to include veterans and military personnel, through equine-assisted activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides the therapeutic riding for individuals with special needs. Therapeutic horseback riding and grooming of the horses has offered a way to help people as they overcome physical and emotional difficulties and challenges. The rythmic gait of a horse offers benefits that can only be achieved on the back of a horse. Spastic muscles will relax, muscles that are underused are awakened, and the rider is given an experience of a new kind of freedom of motion. Horses of hope and many other therapeutic riding facilities all over the world offer the benefits of therapeutic riding for you, a family member, or a friend.

    $113,385 spent$3,725 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,385.

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 ($63k) Expenses 100 ($58k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2018 Revenue 85 ($53k) Expenses 92 ($54k) Net assets 87 ($4k)2019 Revenue 111 ($70k) Expenses 69 ($41k) Net assets 623 ($29k)2020 Revenue 173 ($109k) Expenses 103 ($60k) Net assets 1681 ($77k)2021 Revenue 122 ($77k) Expenses 157 ($92k) Net assets 1351 ($62k)2022 Revenue 168 ($105k) Expenses 120 ($70k) Net assets 12699 ($581k)2023 Revenue 153 ($96k) Expenses 154 ($90k) Net assets 12753 ($584k)2024 Revenue 159 ($100k) Expenses 180 ($105k) Net assets 12526 ($573k)2025 Revenue -389 ($-243549) Expenses 212 ($124k) Net assets 4876 ($223k)
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Revenue (-389)Expenses (212)Net assets (4876)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 2021 to 2022, from $62k to $666k (+978%).

$5k
$4k
$29k
$77k
$62k
$666k
$667k
$652k
$299k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 13% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

-33% of HORSES OF HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
−$614
’18
$29k
’19
$48k
’20
−$15k
’21
$35k
’22
$6k
’23
−$5k
’24
−$367k
’25
7.0
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.

2022202320242025
Listed8333
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·500
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $74k → $10k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 OF HOPE 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

HORSES OF HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 99% · 2022 59% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of HORSES OF HOPE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

92% of HORSES OF HOPE INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

OH
PA
GA

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

’20
’21
’22
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

HORSES OF HOPE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin151% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve7.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like HORSES OF HOPE 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds HORSES OF HOPE INC?
HORSES OF HOPE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,019 to it, the largest being THE HAMER FOUNDATION ($97,395). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HORSES OF HOPE INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $139,019 in grants to HORSES OF HOPE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HORSES OF HOPE INC?
THE HAMER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $97,395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HORSES OF HOPE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 8 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