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StableStrides

StableStrides (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,243,155 to it, the largest being COLORADO SPRINGS HEALTH FOUNDATION ($310,250). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$569k
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$-115048
21/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What StableStrides does

Mission

To significantly improve the wellbeing of individuals through a connection with horses.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organization provides horse-centered therapies and activities to over 135 individuals each year. Individuals served are addressing mental, physical, and behavioral challenges. Their ages range from two to eighty-two. Services are provided at two locations in El Paso County Colorado and include both indoor and outdoor facilities. To achieve its mission of significantly improving the wellbeing of individuals through a connection with horses, the organization relies on the support of over 90 volunteers per year. The number of therapeutic sessions provided in 2025 was 1,785. These programs provide our community with life-changing services that not only work but also save lives.

    $439,577 spent$171,205 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $439,577.

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 ($444k) Expenses 100 ($517k) Net assets 100 ($608k)2019 Revenue 187 ($833k) Expenses 193 ($999k) Net assets 57 ($348k)2021 Revenue 290 ($1.3M) Expenses 235 ($1.2M) Net assets 42 ($255k)2022 Revenue 266 ($1.2M) Expenses 274 ($1.4M) Net assets 3 ($21k)2023 Revenue 186 ($828k) Expenses 192 ($991k) Net assets -23 ($-141820)2024 Revenue 221 ($983k) Expenses 193 ($999k) Net assets -5 ($-30014)2025 Revenue 128 ($569k) Expenses 102 ($527k) Net assets -19 ($-115048)
2017201920212022202320242025
Revenue (128)Expenses (102)Net assets (-19)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 2021 to 2022, from $325k to $149k (−54%).

$645k
$415k
$325k
$149k
$132k
$169k
$68k
2017201920212022202320242025
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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3% · 2021 21% · 2022 14% · 2023 20% · 2024 26% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of StableStrides’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$73k
’17
−$167k
’19
$76k
’21
−$234k
’22
−$163k
’23
−$16k
’24
$42k
’25
0.1
months of
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.

Chief executive

Kay Tally-Foos

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201920212022202320242025
Listed8101211987
Joined···+3+1+1+0
No longer listed···4321
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $188k → $144k.

6 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 StableStrides’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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

StableStrides has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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 StableStrides.

25%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 29% · 2019 32% · 2020 47% · 2021 31% · 2022 40% · 2023 28% — 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 StableStrides's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

87% of StableStrides's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

MN
SD
PA
NJ
CO
MO
KY
MD
DE
TN

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $414k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

StableStrides runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding StableStrides receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.

Federal$30k
grants $30kcontracts $0
19
25
Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$30k

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 StableStrides

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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 9%Fundraising 8%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds StableStrides?
StableStrides (Colorado) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,243,155 to it, the largest being COLORADO SPRINGS HEALTH FOUNDATION ($310,250). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does StableStrides have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,243,155 in grants to StableStrides, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of StableStrides?
COLORADO SPRINGS HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like StableStrides find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 33 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