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Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc

Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,747 to it, the largest being ST VINCENT HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ($144,642). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$690k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$357k
Net assets
$793k
10/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc does

Mission

Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Center is a Path International Premier Accredited Center that provides equine-assisted therapy services for those with physical, mental and emotional disabilities. Morning Dove's programs provide weekly therapeutic services to children and adults who live with disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder, Down's syndrome, post traumatic stress, mucular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, multiple schlerosis, brain injuries, learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders. Morning Dove's program are successful in improving and/or providing essential intervention necessary to improve the participant's muscle tone, balance, posture, mobility, coordination, motor functions and social development skills. Morning Dove has helped hundreds of participants through the years with its equine therapy programs. Morning Dove models the classic example of the strong, non-profit ethic of doing more with less. We have a strong track record of providing high quality therape

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Therapeutic Riding, also known as equine-assisted activites, is an adaptive, therapeutic and recreational riding activity which focuses on improving the well-being of individuls with disabilities. Through learning to ride, participants can address a variety of therapeutic outcomes, including cognitive, physical, emotional, social,educational and behaviorial goals. The ability to control a horse, as well as one's own body, inspires self-confidence, teaches responsibility, affirms trust and builds teamwork skills. From the beginning, riders learn balance and coordination while receiving therapeutic muscle stimulation. As a result of therapy sessions, physical attibutes such as posture, strength and flexibility are improved. Cognitive benefits are gained when participants gain self- assurance and poise and social skills are learned in the session through teamwork and communication. Morning Dove also supports hippotherapy sessions. Hippotherapy is a therapeutic treatment strategy designed to use the multi-dimensional movement and gait of a horse to treat people needing physical therapy, speech therapy or occupational therapy. Morning Dove provides facilities, equipment, horses and…

    $188,646 spent$87,450 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $188,646.

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 ($268k) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($608k)2018 Revenue 169 ($453k) Expenses 23 ($347k) Net assets 117 ($713k)2019 Revenue 114 ($305k) Expenses 28 ($422k) Net assets 98 ($597k)2020 Revenue 121 ($324k) Expenses 22 ($333k) Net assets 95 ($578k)2021 Revenue 113 ($302k) Expenses 25 ($378k) Net assets 119 ($726k)2022 Revenue 88 ($237k) Expenses 25 ($380k) Net assets 83 ($502k)2023 Revenue 95 ($254k) Expenses 25 ($380k) Net assets 62 ($379k)2024 Revenue 257 ($690k) Expenses 19 ($277k) Net assets 130 ($793k)
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Revenue (257)Expenses (19)Net assets (130)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 $538k to $936k (+74%).

$670k
$773k
$638k
$746k
$885k
$676k
$538k
$936k
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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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.2M
’17
$105k
’18
−$117k
’19
−$9k
’20
−$76k
’21
−$143k
’22
−$126k
’23
$412k
’24
38
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed1012121515998
Joined·+3+3+5+4+7+2+2
No longer listed·13241323
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $47k → $22k.

5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding 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

Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

85% 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 Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc.

41%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 59% · 2019 87% · 2020 45% · 2021 38% · 2022 75% · 2023 45% — 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

36% of Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 5 states in all.

WI
IN
MO
AZ
NC

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

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Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin60% · top quartile
Months of reserve38.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education 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

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 8%Fundraising 24%

Governance

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

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc?
Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,747 to it, the largest being ST VINCENT HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE CENTER INC ($144,642). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $356,747 in grants to Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc?
ST VINCENT HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $144,642 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 17 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