Michigan · Nonprofit
THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING
THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,904 to it, the largest being SHANNON FAMILY CHARITABLE FDN FIFTH THIRD ($16,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $160k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $147k
What The Barn for Equine Learning does
Mission
Public charity
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy - Participants typically at-risk youth, or children in the foster care system engage in equine activities in order to address therapeutic goals 615 annual participants.
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 2020 to 2021, from $88k to $132k (+50%).
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 THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kathryn Heggen Llmsw Eagala
President/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 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $7k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING’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
THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 69% · 2021 48% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% — 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
THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING: 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 THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING?
- THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,904 to it, the largest being SHANNON FAMILY CHARITABLE FDN FIFTH THIRD ($16,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $39,904 in grants to THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING?
- SHANNON FAMILY CHARITABLE FDN FIFTH THIRD is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 7 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