Iowa · Nonprofit
INSPIRATION STABLES INC
INSPIRATION STABLES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,353 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($129,885). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $532k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $234k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Inspiration Stables Inc does
Mission
Inspiration stables' mission is to inspire hearts and hooves to build lasting relationships to promote wellness, healing, self-expression and meaning. We support children with special needs by providing therapeutic, adaptive horseback riding sessions. Children who participate in our program have increased physical strength, improved communication, increased confidence and more. We provide a place for all people to belong regardless of ability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides adaptive, therapeutic horseback riding sessions to children with a variety of special needs including adhd, ptsd, anxiety, odd, autism, sensory processing disorder, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, stroke survivors, down syndrome and many others. During sessions, the children do a variety of horsemanship activities that teach them teamwork, gross and fine motor skills, balance, trust, verbal and nonverbal communication skills and more. The children with special needs that we serve have a variety of outcomes achieve through our program including speaking their first word, increased confidence, improved core strength and balance, developing trust with other people and animals, growth in communication skills, reduced anxiety and many others. 100% of the children we serve have reported achieved goals and improved conditions since beginning programming with us.
$251,712 spentof which $720 as grants$30,889 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $251,712.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $820k to $1.2M (+51%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of INSPIRATION STABLES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $50k → $56k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 INSPIRATION STABLES 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
INSPIRATION STABLES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 INSPIRATION STABLES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 80% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 69% · 2023 53% — 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
25% of INSPIRATION STABLES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
67% of INSPIRATION STABLES INC'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 $78k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
INSPIRATION STABLES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INSPIRATION STABLES 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.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSPIRATION STABLES INC?
- INSPIRATION STABLES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,353 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($129,885). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSPIRATION STABLES INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $234,353 in grants to INSPIRATION STABLES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSPIRATION STABLES INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE is the largest funder on record, with $129,885 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSPIRATION STABLES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing