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James River Horse Foundation

James River Horse Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,637 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($146,125). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$259k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$370k
Net assets
$231k
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What James River Horse Foundation does

Mission

James River Horse Foundation ("JRHF") provides humane care, safe sanctuary, rehabilitation & when possible, a second career for Thoroughbred racehorses that can no longer complete & may be at risk for abuse, neglect or slaughter. At its location at the State Farm Work Center in Goochland County, VA, JRHF operates an equine care & management program for nonviolent inmates using the retired horses.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Horse rehabilitation & retirement sanctuary program - Thoroughbred horses that cannot compete at the track due to injuries sustained in racing or training are at risk for neglect, abuse or slaughter. Whenever possible, these horses are rehabilitated & retained for second careers & are adopted out to loving homes after careful screening by the staff of JRHF. Those that are not adoptable are provided safe sanctuary for life,including veteninary care, regular hoof trimming & shoeing, and careful monitoring of nutritional needs. The program normally cares for between 25 & 30 horses at any one time. When an adoption provides a vacancy, new horses are admitted to the program. Adopted horses may never be bred or sold & are always returned to the program if the adoptor can no longer care for them. JRHF works in partnership with AfterCare Charles Town ("ACT") in West VA to accept horses requiring 4-6 months of rehabilitative care which the inmate participants provide through their educational program, after which they are returned to ACT for placement or adopted out locally in the JRHF surrounding area. This partnership provides valuable, diverse training opportunities for the inmates in…

    $144,706 spent
    78% of program spending
  2. Inmate training program - this educational outreach program selects 8 to 10 candidates from the prision population at the State Farm Work Center every 12 weeks to participate in the vocational training program on a rotating basis. Each candidate is carefully screened by the Barn Manager in cooperation with the Assistant Warden & other correctional officers at the facility. This program has established a valuable public-governmental relationship with the VA Dept of Corrections ("VADOC") & is widely recognized for its contributions to the welfare & education of participating offenders & for marked reduction in reeidivism rates for these taking part in the outreach training program. Graduates of the program who have completed their sentence have gone on to successful employment as grooms, blacksmiths & workers at local area horse farms and race tracks such as Colonial Downs in New Kent, VA. The training program is supervised by the Barn Manager & follows an established & well-supervised curriculum having 3 levels of intensity & depth in horse care management & farm maintenance. Participants are transported by officers daily to Barn 4 to study equine nutrition & behaviors, basic…

    $40,985 spent
    22% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $185,691.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($102k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($93k)2021 Revenue 126 ($128k) Expenses 98 ($108k) Net assets 121 ($114k)2022 Revenue 172 ($175k) Expenses 111 ($123k) Net assets 177 ($165k)2023 Revenue 171 ($174k) Expenses 138 ($153k) Net assets 186 ($174k)2024 Revenue 255 ($259k) Expenses 183 ($203k) Net assets 247 ($231k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (255)Expenses (183)Net assets (247)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 2023 to 2024, from $174k to $231k (+33%).

$93k
$114k
$165k
$174k
$231k
20202021202220232024
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.

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2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of James River Horse Foundation’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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’20
$20k
’21
$52k
’22
$21k
’23
$57k
’24
4.8
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $7k → $121k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 James River Horse Foundation’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

James River Horse Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 James River Horse Foundation.

40%
largest funder
82%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 64% · 2020 77% · 2021 58% · 2022 37% · 2023 46% — 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

57% of James River Horse Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 58% 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

James River Horse Foundation draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.

OH
KY
VA
NC
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167k 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

James River Horse Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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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

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds James River Horse Foundation?
James River Horse Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $369,637 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($146,125). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does James River Horse Foundation have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $369,637 in grants to James River Horse Foundation, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of James River Horse Foundation?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $146,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like James River Horse Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 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