Tennessee · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY
SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY (Tennessee) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,562 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($262,750). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $883k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $735k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy does
Mission
Serving individuals with physical, cognitive, and emotional disabilities and hardship by providing equine-assisted services to empower, inspire, nurture, and succeed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy provided transformative equine-assisted services to 231 individuals with disabilities and hardships in 2025 and 274 total participants when including our outreach through pony pals. From ages 2 to 93, our participants represented 29 unique diagnoses and a diverse community that was 47% female, 53% male, and 3% asian, 7% hispanic, 20% african american, and 70% caucasian.we delivered 2,668 lessons totaling 1,970 instructional hours across our eight programs, including adaptive horseback riding, occupational therapy incorporating hippotherapy, making strides recreation therapy, equine services for heroes, beyond the saddle unmounted activities, the teach program, pony pals, and the horsepower work-based learning program.southern reins awarded 34 scholarships to 33 unique individuals in 2025, bringing the total number of scholarships awarded since inception to 373. Our equine services for heroes program served 21 veterans this year, bringing the total served to 143. We partnered with 12 community organizations, including youth villages, indev memphis, tigerlife, memphis va medical center, and page robbins adult day center, to expand access to…
$571,033 spent$156,943 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $571,033.
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 2017 to 2018, from $764k to $2.1M (+173%).
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: 2017 0% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Jill Haag
Executive director
Board chair
Courtney Smith
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $35k → $163k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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
SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 74% · 2019 65% · 2020 28% · 2021 33% · 2022 32% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
62% of SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
65% of SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $360k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY
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 Tennessee
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
77%
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 SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY: 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 SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY?
- SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY (Tennessee) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,562 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS ($262,750). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $734,562 in grants to SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY?
- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS is the largest funder on record, with $262,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN REINS CENTER FOR EQUINE THERAPY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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