North Carolina · Nonprofit
SADDLE UP AND READ
SADDLE UP AND READ (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,698 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($91,986). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $151k
- Net assets
- $50k
What Saddle Up and Read does
Mission
To encourage youth to achieve literary excellence through equine activities. To inspire a love for reading so children develop into lifelong readers. To assist schools, libraries, youth groups, and Pre-K classrooms to build literacy skills and increase the number of grade level readers.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Assisted schools, libraries, youth groups, and Pre-K classrooms to build literacy skills and increase the number of grade level readers.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $61k → $36k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 AND READ’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
SADDLE UP AND READ leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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 AND READ.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 92% · 2022 80% · 2023 42% — 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 AND READ's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
62% of SADDLE UP AND READ's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $57k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 AND READ runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,624 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like SADDLE UP AND READ
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SADDLE UP AND READ?
- SADDLE UP AND READ (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,698 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($91,986). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SADDLE UP AND READ have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $150,698 in grants to SADDLE UP AND READ, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SADDLE UP AND READ?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $91,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SADDLE UP AND READ find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 12 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