Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC
SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,590,410 to it, the largest being ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($881,347). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $956k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Shining Stars Therapeutic Riding Program Inc does
Mission
Provide equine therapy to adults and children with special needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Seeks to provide therapeutic horsemanship programs to children, adults, and families with special needs in order to improve physical, mental, emotional, and social areas of their lives. The organization exists to embrace the community with hope and unconditional love by serving individuals with special needs in order to develop strength, build confidence, and achieve goals. Families get the therapy they need from the horses they love.
$323,485 spent$56,529 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $323,485.
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 $704k to $2.1M (+192%).
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: 2018 6% · 2019 8% · 2020 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $235k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM 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
SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 84% · 2022 69% · 2023 75% — 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
100% of SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
73% of SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM 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 $426k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM 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 SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC?
- SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,590,410 to it, the largest being ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($881,347). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,590,410 in grants to SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC?
- ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $881,347 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHINING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING PROGRAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing