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The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc

The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,488,606 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($461,764). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$2.3M
22/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc does

Mission

To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, neglected and slaughter bound horses of all breads and sizes. To provide a safe, loving and rehabilitative home, including all needed medical care, to every incoming animal. Once ready for their forever family, each horse is placed in a prescreened and qualified home. To educate the community about all matters of horse care, health and advocacy to continously improve the long-honored and time-tested human equine partnership.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, neglected and slaughter bound horses.

    $647,532 spent$29,630 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $647,532.

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 ($139k) Expenses 100 ($142k) Net assets 100 ($46k)2018 Revenue 145 ($202k) Expenses 115 ($163k) Net assets 184 ($84k)2019 Revenue 165 ($230k) Expenses 145 ($205k) Net assets 241 ($110k)2020 Revenue 169 ($236k) Expenses 162 ($229k) Net assets 254 ($116k)2021 Revenue 268 ($373k) Expenses 222 ($314k) Net assets 383 ($175k)2022 Revenue 1052 ($1.5M) Expenses 317 ($449k) Net assets 2608 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 835 ($1.2M) Expenses 385 ($545k) Net assets 3962 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 633 ($881k) Expenses 509 ($721k) Net assets 4313 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 784 ($1.1M) Expenses 571 ($808k) Net assets 4934 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (784)Expenses (571)Net assets (4934)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 $178k to $1.2M (+568%).

$46k
$95k
$119k
$138k
$178k
$1.2M
$1.8M
$2.2M
$2.5M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
$38k
’18
$26k
’19
$6k
’20
$59k
’21
$1.0M
’22
$618k
’23
$160k
’24
$283k
’25
10
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed666677
Joined·+2+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·20100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $4k → $402k.

9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Dorset Equine Rescue Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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

51% 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 The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc.

31%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 55% · 2019 42% · 2020 47% · 2021 48% · 2022 52% · 2023 25% — 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 The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 17 states in all.

VT
ID
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
UT
CO
MO
VA
DE
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $734k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · above the median
Months of reserve10.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.

State$16k
Top programs
  • Grants$16k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 6%Fundraising 14%

Governance

7
board members
71%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

VT

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc?
The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,488,606 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($461,764). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,488,606 in grants to The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $461,764 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 38 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