Virginia · Nonprofit
Humane Horse Handling
Humane Horse Handling (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,076 to it, the largest being ELBERT H EVELYN J & KAREN H WALDRON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Humane Horse Handling does
Mission
The overall purpose of the organization is research and education of the public veterinary and animal science community on handling and management of wild and feral equids. The primary activity of the organization in 2024 was relocation and management of a semi-feral herd of Shetland ponies from their 30-year home at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine to a pasture sanctuary in northeastern Pennsylvania. Educational activities included educational tours and educational open house even for equine educators and the local agricultural community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Maintained a herd of 75-90 Shetland ponies for equine research and education concerning natual behavior and health of horses. Including published research on-site tours for the public educational courses.
$85,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $29k to $81k (+183%).
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.
100% of Humane Horse Handling’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $19.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Humane Horse Handling’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
Humane Horse Handling leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of Humane Horse Handling's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Humane Horse Handling runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Humane Horse Handling
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Humane Horse Handling: 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 Humane Horse Handling?
- Humane Horse Handling (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,076 to it, the largest being ELBERT H EVELYN J & KAREN H WALDRON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Humane Horse Handling have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,076 in grants to Humane Horse Handling, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Humane Horse Handling?
- ELBERT H EVELYN J & KAREN H WALDRON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Humane Horse Handling find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2024–2025), 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