Florida · Nonprofit
SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC
SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,775 to it, the largest being The United Way of Lee County Inc ($361,524). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $510k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $690k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Special Equestrians Inc does
Mission
To provide therapeautic benefits to handicapped citizens through a horseback riding program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Therapeutic riding our therapeutic riding program focuses on teaching horseback-riding skills while using therapeutic activities tailored to each rider's needs. These lessons are designed specifically for riders with physical and cognitive disabilities. Group lessons are structured with four riders per class, each taught by a certified riding instructor. These small-group mounted therapeutic riding lessons take place simultaneously in our large, covered 100' x 200' arena for a 1-hour session, which includes time to mount and dismount riders. Some riders, if they are interested, may go back to the barn to help untack and groom their horse. Therapeutic riding develops small and gross motor skills, problem-solving abilities, and teaches essential emotional and physical processes, and builds social connections among riders, their instructors, volunteers, and other riders. Riders often do not realize they are gaining therapeutic benefits because they are having so much fun experiencing the motion of a horse is therapeutic because horseback riding rhythmically moves the rider's body like the human gait. Riders with physical disabilities regularly show improvement in flexibility,…
$387,524 spent$40,009 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $387,524.
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 $1.7M to $1.9M (+10%).
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: 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $44k → $98k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS 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
SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 51% · 2019 65% · 2020 43% · 2021 63% · 2022 47% · 2023 66% — 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
35% of SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
84% of SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $9k
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 SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC?
- SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,775 to it, the largest being The United Way of Lee County Inc ($361,524). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $689,775 in grants to SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC?
- The United Way of Lee County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $361,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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