Maryland · Nonprofit
SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC
SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,079 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Early Learning Coalition of Marion County Inclocal
- USA Equestrian Trust Incportfolio match
- Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernationalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
100% of SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 SCHOLARS 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
SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 SCHOLARS INC.
“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
61% of SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC'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 $80k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Early Learning Coalition of Marion County InclocalFL · funds 128 organizations near you
- USA Equestrian Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Equestrian Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Quarter Horse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beverly J Gepfer and Kirk R Martens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leeps Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goshen Hill Foundation Inc-Imaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oliver-Hoffmann Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Olsten Family C Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Davis-McCullough Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kathleen Cailloux Family Foundation Happy State Bank & Trust Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SADDLE UP SCHOLARS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC?
- SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,079 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $202,079 in grants to SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC?
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SADDLE UP SCHOLARS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing