Tennessee · Nonprofit
SADDLE UP
SADDLE UP (Tennessee) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,796,591 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($1,668,368). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 89
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Saddle Up does
Mission
See schedule oSaddle Up! Started as a dream and launched as a one night a week program in daylight and good weather only for 10 students. Saddle Up! Is now a year-round program that will serve nearly 180 children/youth this year. Saddle Up! Is the oldest and largest program of its kind in the region, and the only one exclusively serving children and youth who have disabilities. We are a premier center accredited by path international, the organization that sets the standards for safety and quality in equine assisted programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Saddle Up!'s adaptive riding (ar) program is an equine-assisted service where participants work on their mounted and unmounted horsemanship skills. Our path international certified instructors adapt the lesson for the purpose of contributing positively to the cognitive, physical, emotional and social wellbeing of children with disabilities. Secondary benefits that have been observed by Saddle Up! Families include improvements in balance, endurance, coordination, communication, speech, attention, and much more. Our adaptive riding program serves children with disabilities from the age of 4 through their 19th birthday. Saddle Up! Developed and uses rides as our system of assessment for the adaptive riding program. For more information, visit our rides informational page. The rides program allows our path international certified instructor to teach mounted and unmounted skills and to set and measure participant goals and objectives, from the fundamentals to cantering. Goals are based on the participant's abilities and include family input. At the end of each session, families are updated via an end of session report on how their child has worked to attain their goals.
$883,711 spent$159,052 earned by the program67% of program spendingTherapy services Saddle Up!'s therapy services (ts) offers physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language therapy that incorporates equine movement as a treatment strategy. Our therapists skillfully direct the movement of the horse to challenge and engage the client's neuromuscular and sensorimotor systems to address the client's challenges, such as deficits in balance, endurance, coordination, communication, speech, and attention. Therapy services treats clients with disabilities as young as 2 years old.
$93,433 spent$56,243 earned by the program7% of program spendingEquine assisted learning program Saddle Up!'s equine assisted learning (eal) program is an experiential learning approach which involves students interacting with horses to build self-confidence, improve social skills, and reinforce academic skills. Using the barn as a dynamic classroom, students also get to participate in arts, crafts, hikes, games, and discovery. This program is designed for students kindergarten through 12th grade with learning and/or social differences.
$71,605 spent$20,900 earned by the program5% of program spendingHorse programs
$260,989 spent$19,886 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,309,738.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $13M (+25%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of SADDLE UP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Audrey Kidd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $325k → $610k.
13 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SADDLE UP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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
SADDLE UP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 SADDLE UP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 67% · 2019 54% · 2020 48% · 2021 31% · 2022 35% · 2023 33% — 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
50% of SADDLE UP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
88% of SADDLE UP's grant income comes from Tennessee 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 12 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
SADDLE UP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SADDLE UP
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SADDLE UP: 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 SADDLE UP?
- SADDLE UP (Tennessee) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,796,591 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ($1,668,368). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SADDLE UP have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $4,796,591 in grants to SADDLE UP, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SADDLE UP?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,668,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SADDLE UP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 89 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