California · Nonprofit
Stable Hands
Stable Hands (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,513 to it, the largest being LILLYS GIFT FOUNDATION ($184,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $183k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $328k
- Net assets
- $234k
What Stable Hands does
Mission
Stable Hands' mission is to teach adaptive horseback riding to empower individuals in our community to overcome physical, mental and emotional challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Stable Hands operated three seasonal sessions on a weekly basis. Participants are ages 4 to adult with a wide range of disabilitites including autism, cerebral palsy, downs syndrome, intellectual disability, traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress and seizure disorders. The sessions were held at an outdoor facility on provate property, the use of which was donated by a willing and supportive owner. Through adaptive horsemanship, our clients increased core stre3ngth, balance, endurance, self-esteem and independence. Stable Hands' Horses Helping Heros program serves veterans who have sustained a physical, mental or emotional injury, illness or wound. Vetern volunteers assist the instructors. In addition to weekly sessions, the veterans participated in the Yreka Holiday Parade. The dedication of the Stable Hands staff and volunteers was rewarded by remarkable progress physically, mentally and socially in program participants.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2023 to 2024, from $183k to $216k (+18%).
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.
86% of Stable Hands’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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Janet Jones
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $42k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Stable Hands’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
Stable Hands leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 58% · 2022 59% · 2023 59% — 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
100% of Stable Hands's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Stable Hands runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 Stable Hands receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $114k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$114k
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 Stable Hands
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 Stable Hands: 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 Stable Hands?
- Stable Hands (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,513 to it, the largest being LILLYS GIFT FOUNDATION ($184,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Stable Hands have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $327,513 in grants to Stable Hands, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Stable Hands?
- LILLYS GIFT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $184,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Stable Hands find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing