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ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS

ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,597 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($79,725). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$160k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$170k
Net assets
$34k
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What St Croix Trail Blazers does

Mission

The mission of this corporation is to provide horseback riding, training, and competitive sports opportunities to individuals with special needs in a safe learning environment through the adaptive equine experience.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Our therapeutic program mission is to provide horseback riding, training, and competitive sports opportunities to individuals with special needs in a safe learning environment through the adaptive equine experience. Our veterans program mission is to provide therapeutic riding and activities for active duty or veteran military personnel to enhance their physical, emotional, and social well-being. 62 clients were served in 2024.

    $135,467 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $135,467.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2019 Revenue 144 ($122k) Expenses 155 ($124k) Net assets 179 ($39k)2020 Revenue 159 ($135k) Expenses 159 ($127k) Net assets 206 ($45k)2021 Revenue 218 ($185k) Expenses 199 ($160k) Net assets 324 ($70k)2022 Revenue 189 ($160k) Expenses 188 ($151k) Net assets 365 ($79k)2023 Revenue 160 ($135k) Expenses 213 ($171k) Net assets 203 ($44k)2024 Revenue 189 ($160k) Expenses 213 ($171k) Net assets 155 ($34k)
2017201920202021202220232024
Revenue (189)Expenses (213)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $80k to $45k (−44%).

$22k
$39k
$47k
$71k
$80k
$45k
$34k
2017201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

39% of ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
−$2k
’19
$7k
’20
$26k
’21
$9k
’22
−$35k
’23
−$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $12k → $12k.

7 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS’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

ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS.

47%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2020 66% · 2021 73% · 2022 51% · 2023 50% — 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

20% of ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

74% of ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS'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 $44k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states.

WA
MN
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS has grown faster than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS?
ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $169,597 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($79,725). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $169,597 in grants to ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS?
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $79,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST CROIX TRAIL BLAZERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 10 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