New Jersey · Nonprofit
PONY POWER THERAPIES INC
PONY POWER THERAPIES INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,406,356 to it, the largest being THE VINIAR FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,740,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Pony Power Therapies Inc does
Mission
Pony power therapies is a non-profit organization that connects individuals with disabilities or life challenges to the wonders of horses, farming and nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Therapeutic riding - pony power offers therapeutic riding lessons, when indicated, to individuals with a broad spectrum of developmental and physical disabilities as well as those managing other life challanges. The program focuses on helping individuals develop riding skills in a supportive, adaptive environment where most participants realize therapeutic benefits, such as greater core strength, improved motor planning and increased self-confidence. During fy 25, pony power provided 3,786 therapeutic riding sessions.
$1,238,333 spentof which $31,899 as grants$352,158 earned by the program62% of program spendingHorse-assisted learning - pony power offers a non-riding program aimed at developing life skills. The program serves both individuals and groups. Groups benefiting from this program included high schools seeking to satisfy community-based instruction requirements; students and young adults seeking pre-vocational training; and those struggling with life challanges such as ptsd, substance abuse/recovery and anxiety and depression. Pony power also has an after-school program for adolescents in need of support that incorporates horse-assisted learning. During fy25, pony power provided 2,426 horse-assisted learning sessions to groups and individuals.
$229,835 spentof which $5,624 as grants$65,360 earned by the program12% of program spendingSchool groups and summer extended - this program combines the riding program with a nature-based farm and horsemanship curricullum. Activities include grooming and horse care, including first-aid, gardening, composting and beekeeping. This program serves elementary and middle schools during the school year. In the summer, the program serves children who are at-risk in addition to children with developmental and physical disabilities. During fy25, pony power provided 4,656 sessions for school group and summer-extended programs.
$378,435 spentof which $9,259 as grants$107,619 earned by the program19% of program spendingGarden assisted learning - nature based farm learning incorporating pony powers farm in the forest (accessible playspace in a wooded, fenced area.)
$134,730 spentof which $1,697 as grants$50,155 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,981,333.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.7M to $8.3M (+24%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of PONY POWER THERAPIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Dana Spett
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Jenkins
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $8k → $1.2M.
9 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 PONY POWER THERAPIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
PONY POWER THERAPIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 PONY POWER THERAPIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 84% · 2019 96% · 2020 55% · 2021 17% · 2022 21% · 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
45% of PONY POWER THERAPIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
PONY POWER THERAPIES INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $899k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PONY POWER THERAPIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PONY POWER THERAPIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.
- DEDICATED$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PONY POWER THERAPIES 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
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 PONY POWER THERAPIES 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 PONY POWER THERAPIES INC?
- PONY POWER THERAPIES INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,406,356 to it, the largest being THE VINIAR FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,740,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PONY POWER THERAPIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $3,406,356 in grants to PONY POWER THERAPIES INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PONY POWER THERAPIES INC?
- THE VINIAR FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,740,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PONY POWER THERAPIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 41 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