Florida · Nonprofit
SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC
SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,794 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($160,262). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $328k
- Net assets
- $478k
What Sixteen Hands Horse Sanctuary Inc does
Mission
To rescue and rehabilitate abused, abandoned, neglected, and unwanted horses, provide lifetime sanctuary to horses with special medical and/or emotional needs, place adoptable horses in permanent homes through a foster-to-adopt program, promote awareness of the principles of natural horsemanship through educational programs, help community horses by providing outreach assistance to horse owners with a hand up and encouraging the public to identify and report abused, abandoned, and neglected horses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To rescue and rehabilitate abused, abandoned, neglected, and unwanted horses, provide lifetime sanctuary to horses with special medical and/or emotional needs, place adoptable horses in permanent homes through a foster-to-adopt program, promote awareness of the principles of natural horsemanship through educational programs, help community horses by providing outreach assistance to horse owners with a hand up and encouraging the public to identify and report abused, abandoned, and neglected horses.
$182,510 spent$27,431 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $182,510.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $573k to $531k (−7%).
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.
98% of SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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 8 funders, grant income rose $37k → $83k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY 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
SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY 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
70% 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 SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 87% · 2020 91% · 2021 89% · 2022 62% · 2023 54% — 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
40% of SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
55% of SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY 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 $146k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182k 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
SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC?
- SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,794 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($160,262). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $327,794 in grants to SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,262 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIXTEEN HANDS HORSE SANCTUARY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing