Virginia · Nonprofit
TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM
TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,090 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($241,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $78k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $246k
- Net assets
- $44k
What Tarpan Horse Conservation Program does
Mission
We nurture a relationship with Tarpan horses, educating the public about their legacy and fostering the development of life skills. We seek to protect the genetic integrity of this rare breed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Tarpan horse conservation: We maintain a historical and current registry Tarpan horses. We tested artificial insemination methods with a conservation stallion in Virginia and mares in Alberta, Canada. We began supporting the transfer of several Canadian stallions to the New Mexico herd.
$15,249 spent39% of program spendingTarpan horse rehab and recovery: We continued to support the recovery and rehabilitation of a rare Tarpan with equine protozoal meningitis in southwest Virginia. In Oregon, we partnered with Choice Tribe to protect and conserve Tarpan horses in sanctuary. We will begin support to them in 2026
$377 spent1% of program spendingHorse-Human Connections for Personal Development: We engaged 4 Tarpan horses continuously in experiential groundwork with small groups of children and adults, once or twice a week for 9-10 months of the year. Through our partnership with the Arc of Augusta, we emphasize personal development and learning in a semi-structured format and outdoors farm environment. Our participants are people who have been diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We have joined the 2026 Horses for Mental Health Campaign. At Bearfoot Ranch, Tarpan horses work with special needs children on a daily basis. Other members of our network also host special needs people.
$23,130 spent60% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,756.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5k to $44k (+865%).
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 TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $75k → $65k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM’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
TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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
98% of TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $241k 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
TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM: 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 TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM?
- TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,090 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($241,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $246,090 in grants to TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $241,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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