California · Nonprofit
SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS
SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,281,750 to it, the largest being Oklahoma State University Foundation ($5,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Saving America's Mustangs does
Programs
The organization established and maintains a horse sanctuary that serves to protect the lives of one of america's natural treasures. The sanctuary provides a refuge for wild mustang horses that otherwise would have been held in short term holding facilities by the bureau of land management or may have been sold to slaughter houses. The sanctuary provides feeding and care for hundreds of mustang horses and permits them to roam freely on the sanctuary property. The care of the horses include costs for watering the horses, care of pump, pipes, etc., and labor to move the horses when necessary due to extreme weather conditions. Some of the mustangs have been trained to permit human interaction. Such interaction allows caregivers and other personnel to get close to the horses and serves as a memorable and lasting form of public outreach.
$297,702 spentThe organization established mustang monument, which is a wild horse preserve and education center. Mustang monument is surrounded by majestic mountain ranges. The preserve and education center encompasses over 900 square miles just south of wells, nevada. The preserve is designed to provide sanctuary for up to a thousand wild horses.
$141,033 spentThe organization provides public education regarding the horse sanctuary, the history of horses in america, and the protection and care of wild horses through print literature, children's books, and other public outreach efforts, including online resources. It uses its website, videos, and other outreach to increase public awareness and education concerning the plight of wild horses.
$11,000 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $10M to $14M (+38%).
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.
Board chair
Madeleine A Pickens
Chairperson, president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $5.1M → $103k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS’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
SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 97% · 2019 53% · 2020 57% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
13% of SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% 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
SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS's revenue fell 48% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS?
- SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,281,750 to it, the largest being Oklahoma State University Foundation ($5,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $5,281,750 in grants to SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS?
- Oklahoma State University Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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