Wisconsin · Nonprofit
SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC
SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,167 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Spirit Horse Equine Rescue & Education Center Inc does
Mission
Equine rescue & rehabilitation; adoptions; education programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Spirit Horse Equine Rescue & Education Center rescues abused neglected unwanted and slaughter-bound equines providing veterinary care farrier services and specialized feeding to rehabilitate each horse physically and mentally. Horses that can be sufficiently rehabilitated are placed in qualified adoptive homes; those that cannot are provided sanctuary for the duration of their lives. During the fiscal year the organization provided care to approximately 36 horses
$81,562 spent100% of program spendingThe organization provides education to groups and individuals on methods of Natural Horsemanship and proper equine care helping horse owners better care for their animals so they do not end up unwanted or in shelters. During the fiscal year the organization also began producing an educational podcast to extend this outreach to a wider audience.
$31 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $21k to $48k (+127%).
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.
100% of SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $7k → $2k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER 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
SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 84% · 2022 88% · 2023 47% — 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.
Where its funders are
85% of SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER 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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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
SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER 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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER 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 SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,167 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $44,167 in grants to SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRIT HORSE EQUINE RESCUE & EDUCATION CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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