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MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC

MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,404 to it, the largest being Bay Area Barns and Trails ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$141k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$299k
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Marin Stables & Trails Inc does

Mission

Restore historic marin stables and watershed trails and habitats. To provide for the maintenance of horses and education in equine, environmental arts, and outreach to broader diverse user groups and community outreach programs. To keep an equine presence on the watershed lands by keeping a viable active home for horses.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide and maintain a home for horses, equine environmental education and community outreach. Improvement and maintenance of existing structures for horses and program outreach activities.

    $141,071 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $141,071.

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 ($36k) Expenses 100 ($37k) Net assets 100 ($315k)2018 Revenue 107 ($38k) Expenses 86 ($32k) Net assets 102 ($321k)2019 Revenue 90 ($32k) Expenses 116 ($43k) Net assets 98 ($310k)2020 Revenue 75 ($27k) Expenses 94 ($35k) Net assets 96 ($301k)2021 Revenue 71 ($25k) Expenses 56 ($21k) Net assets 97 ($306k)2022 Revenue 465 ($166k) Expenses 412 ($154k) Net assets 101 ($318k)2023 Revenue 454 ($162k) Expenses 478 ($179k) Net assets 96 ($301k)2024 Revenue 395 ($141k) Expenses 382 ($143k) Net assets 95 ($299k)
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Revenue (395)Expenses (382)Net assets (95)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 $318k to $301k (−5%).

$315k
$321k
$310k
$301k
$306k
$318k
$301k
$299k
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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

17% of MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$6k
’18
−$11k
’19
−$8k
’20
$5k
’21
$12k
’22
−$17k
’23
−$2k
’24
7.0
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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Listed66677555
Joined·+0+2+4+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0230200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $5k → $4k.

1 of 4 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.

From the IRS filings of MARIN STABLES & TRAILS 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

MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

46%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 93% · 2022 50% · 2023 62% — 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.

Where its funders are

67% of MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA
DE

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. $154 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

MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve7.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture 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

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

30%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC: 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 MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC?
MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,404 to it, the largest being Bay Area Barns and Trails ($15,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,404 in grants to MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC?
Bay Area Barns and Trails is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARIN STABLES & TRAILS INC 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.

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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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