Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC
SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $547,060 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($172,955). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $549k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $547k
- Net assets
- $729k
What Southern Tier Alternative Therapies Inc does
Mission
To provide a hippotherapy/therapeutic riding program for developmentally disabled individuals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To provide mental health programs and services to children, adolescents and adults with mental health, behavioral, and emotional challenges (more specifically, veterans, at risk youth, and individuals who have experienced trauma).
$447,914 spent$39,940 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $447,914.
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 2020 to 2021, from $346k to $630k (+82%).
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 2% · 2020 14% · 2021 2% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $23k → $61k.
5 of 16 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 TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES 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
SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
69% 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 TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 61% · 2019 66% · 2020 55% · 2021 61% · 2022 44% · 2023 22% — 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
67% of SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
77% of SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $467k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$250k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$217k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES 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
97% 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 SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES 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 SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC?
- SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $547,060 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($172,955). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $547,060 in grants to SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $172,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES 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 16 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