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ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC

ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,111 to it, the largest being GEORGE REED MCNEILL ANIMAL WELFARE FUND ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$315k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$46k
Net assets
$164k
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Illinois Horse Rescue of Will County Inc does

Mission

The organization was founded to provide shelter and care for mistreated or abandoned horses. They provide shelter, food and veterinary services for these animals until a suitable home can be found. As a secondary service, they provide educational and therapuetic programs with local schools and charities with and about these animals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing shelter and care for disregarded and orphaned horses.

    $175,584 spent$4,085 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $175,584.

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 ($113k) Expenses 100 ($100k) Net assets -8 ($-2857)2018 Revenue 145 ($164k) Expenses 127 ($127k) Net assets 100 ($34k)2019 Revenue 137 ($155k) Expenses 159 ($159k) Net assets 90 ($31k)2020 Revenue 150 ($170k) Expenses 163 ($163k) Net assets 112 ($38k)2021 Revenue 157 ($178k) Expenses 165 ($165k) Net assets 149 ($51k)2022 Revenue 127 ($144k) Expenses 197 ($196k) Net assets -5 ($-1674)2023 Revenue 153 ($173k) Expenses 156 ($156k) Net assets 27 ($9k)2024 Revenue 156 ($177k) Expenses 162 ($161k) Net assets 73 ($25k)2025 Revenue 278 ($315k) Expenses 176 ($176k) Net assets 479 ($164k)
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Revenue (278)Expenses (176)Net assets (479)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 2024 to 2025, from $60k to $200k (+231%).

$32k
$69k
$89k
$90k
$99k
$41k
$47k
$60k
$200k
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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: 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$37k
’18
−$3k
’19
$7k
’20
$13k
’21
−$53k
’22
$17k
’23
$16k
’24
$139k
’25
13
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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Listed555554444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·00003100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $25k → $3k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY 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

ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

54%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 76% · 2022 68% · 2023 60% — 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

50% of ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

67% of ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
PA
RI

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin44% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC?
ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,111 to it, the largest being GEORGE REED MCNEILL ANIMAL WELFARE FUND ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $46,111 in grants to ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC?
GEORGE REED MCNEILL ANIMAL WELFARE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ILLINOIS HORSE RESCUE OF WILL COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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