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Humanity for Horses

Humanity for Horses (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,177,698 to it, the largest being HODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($932,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.9M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$12M
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Humanity for Horses does

Mission

Our mission is to rescue mustangs, thoroughbreds, and other horses in need, many of whom have endured abuse or were at risk of slaughter. Our sanctuary offers them a safe, lifelong home. Horses have attended to mankind for millennia; we believe its time for us to return the favor.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Humanity for Horses has been rescuing horses and other animals from slaughter, abuse, neglect and abandonment since 2012. Through the highest quality of medical and emotional attention, we provide those in our care with life-long sanctuary and allow them to live out their lives in dignity. We also provide educational programs for children and the elderly by sharing the hope and grace these animals embody.AT THE CLOSE OF 2024, 675 ANIMALS WERE IN OUR CARE - 587 HORSES AND 88 OTHER ANIMALS THAT INCLUDE DONKEYS, MULES, SHEEP, GOATS, LLAMAS, ALPACAS, DOGS, CATS, CHICKENS AND GEESE. CONTINUED CONSTRUCTION OF ALL THE NEEDED SHELTERS AND PASTURES FOR THE ABOVE HORSES AND ANIMALS TO MAINTAIN THEIR SAFETY, SECURITY, HEALTH AND ONGOING PEACEFUL LIVING NEEDS. WE HAVE EXPANDED THE USE OF EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY IN THE CARE OF THE ANIMALS AND BETTERMENT OF THEIR CARE ACCORDINGLY.FUNDING COMES BY WAY OF THE GENEROSITY OF GRANTS, INDIVDUAL DONATIONS, AND CORPORATE DONATIONS. MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS HAVE JOINED OUR DIRECT ANIMAL SPONSORSHIP WHEREBY THEY AGREE TO A MONTHLY PAYMENT TO SUPPORT AN INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL FOR THE COST OF FEED EACH MONTH.

    $8,727,733 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,727,733.

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 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($386k)2018 Revenue 125 ($3.2M) Expenses 130 ($3.2M) Net assets 98 ($378k)2019 Revenue 160 ($4.1M) Expenses 129 ($3.2M) Net assets 335 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 253 ($6.5M) Expenses 129 ($3.2M) Net assets 1202 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 238 ($6.1M) Expenses 145 ($3.6M) Net assets 1861 ($7.2M)2022 Revenue 250 ($6.4M) Expenses 171 ($4.2M) Net assets 2392 ($9.2M)2023 Revenue 372 ($9.6M) Expenses 164 ($4.0M) Net assets 3872 ($15M)2024 Revenue 228 ($5.9M) Expenses 359 ($8.8M) Net assets 3096 ($12M)
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Revenue (228)Expenses (359)Net assets (3096)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 2022 to 2023, from $9.8M to $15M (+56%).

$400k
$463k
$1.4M
$4.7M
$7.5M
$9.8M
$15M
$12M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of Humanity for Horses’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
’17
−$8k
’18
$926k
’19
$3.3M
’20
$2.5M
’21
$2.2M
’22
$5.5M
’23
−$3.0M
’24
1.5
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.

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Listed77666657
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+0+2
No longer listed·0101010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $84k → $162k.

1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $475k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sharing WW Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Humanity for Horses raised.

From the IRS filings of Humanity for Horses’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

Humanity for Horses leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

90% 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 Humanity for Horses.

79%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 64% · 2019 98% · 2020 78% · 2021 95% · 2022 73% · 2023 92% — 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

57% of Humanity for Horses's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

Humanity for Horses draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.

NY
CA
KY

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Humanity for Horses has grown faster than half of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−51% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

12%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Humanity for Horses?
Humanity for Horses (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,177,698 to it, the largest being HODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($932,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Humanity for Horses have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,177,698 in grants to Humanity for Horses, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Humanity for Horses?
HODES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $932,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Humanity for Horses 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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