Texas · Nonprofit
STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC
STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,978,308 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($550,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Starlight Therapeutic Riding Center Inc does
Mission
Starlight therapeutic riding center, inc. Provides equine-assisted activities and therapies for children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities by using the movement of the horse to improve these conditions. Students will interact with specially trained horses to enhance their physical, cognitive, social, emotional and motor skills.with input from parents, physicians, physical therapists and special education teachers, our experienced path certified instructors develop lesson plans to suit each of our riders short and long term goals. Additionally, we stress having fun in a safe and rewarding environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Starlight therapeutic riding center, inc. Provides equine-assisted activities and therapies for children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities by using the movement of the horse to improve these conditions. Students will interact with specially trained horses to enhance their physical, cognitive, social, emotional and motor skills.with input from parents, physicians, physical therapists and special education teachers, our experienced path certified instructors develop lesson plans to suit each of our riders short and long term goals. Additionally, we stress having fun in a safe and rewarding environment.
$231,065 spent$20,040 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $231,065.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+34%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 6 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Maybin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $557k → $454k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING 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
STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% 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
56% 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 STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 99% · 2020 66% · 2021 42% · 2022 64% · 2023 44% — 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
50% of STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
56% of STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING 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 $869k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC's revenue fell 82% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC?
- STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,978,308 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($550,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,978,308 in grants to STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARLIGHT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 19 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