Washington · Nonprofit
LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,217,837 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($662,748). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 106
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center does
Mission
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center is a community where horses transform the bodies, minds and spirits of people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adaptive riding services: adaptive riding focuses on increasing individual riding skills while gaining therapeutic benefits. Lessons are taught by one of our instructors certified by the professional association of therapeutic horsemanship international (path). Participants show improved independence, self-esteem, concentration, verbal fluency and reduced anxiety. In 2025, during our 42 weeks of regular adaptive programming, 5,117 adaptive riding lessons were provided for 178 participants. Equine-facilitated psychotherapy (efp) and equine-assisted learning (eal) involve little bit partnering with local mental health therapists (efp) and educators (eal) to provide services at our facility. Therapists and educators work hand in hand with little bit staff who have been certified by path as equine specialists. Horses are uniquely suited to this kind of therapy because they are intuitive and will react to behavior patterns and cues that people might miss, allowing the therapist or educator to interact on a deeper level with their patient or student and address issues that might otherwise go unnoticed. In 2025, efp services were provided for eight participants in 109 sessions, and 216…
$1,751,973 spentof which $62,111 as grants$748,482 earned by the program57% of program spendingTherapy services: therapy at little bit is an intensive medical treatment during which a licensed physical, occupational, or speech-language therapist works with a patient, incorporating the movement of the horse, or the horse itself, as part of the treatment. The therapist uses the movement of the horse to address the patient's challenges, such as deficits in balance, strength, endurance, coordination, communication, and attention. This therapy does not teach riding skills, rather the goals are geared towards independence for daily activities and increased participation in family, school, and community life. In 2025, little bit provided 4,032 treatment sessions and 82 evaluations to 173 patients.
$1,325,773 spentof which $35,488 as grants$718,297 earned by the program43% of program spendingSeminars & clinics: little bit hosts workshops/certifications for path and american hippotherapy association (aha). These workshops provide education and training to path certified therapeutic riding instructor candidates and equine specialists in mental health and learning, as well as therapists for hippotherapy. In 2025, little bit hosted a hippotherapy handler skills course for 25 participants. Little bit also hosts workshops for volunteers and staff. In 2025, little bit held nine groundwork series classes for 36 participants, and 2 schooler training seminars for 37 participants.
$3,928 spent$1,817 earned by the program0% of program spendingHorse shows: little bit hosts memorial horse shows to provide an opportunity for our participants to showcase their riding skills. This is a unique opportunity for many of our participants to earn merit-based awards and compete against their peers in a sport that they train and practice for year around. In 2025, we had 41 virtual and 78 in-person horse show participants of all abilities judged on a variety of skill levels on horseback.
$3,752 spent$9,447 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,085,426.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $11M to $12M (+7%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Paula Del Giudice
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $409k → $983k.
22 of 106 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 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
LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
49% 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 LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 25% · 2021 24% · 2022 15% · 2023 10% — 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
40% of LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
68% of LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: 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 LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER?
- LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 106 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,217,837 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($662,748). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 106 organizations giving $5,217,837 in grants to LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $662,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 106 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