Connecticut · Nonprofit
THE EQUUS EFFECT INC
THE EQUUS EFFECT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $921,590 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($287,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $393k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $922k
- Net assets
- $643k
What The Equus Effect Inc does
Mission
To help veterans and others in transition rebuild healthy relationships at home, work and school through meaningful engagement with horses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In june 2019, the veterans administration (va) was awarded a $200,000 research grant to study the impact of our four-session, 16-hour curriculum on a trans diagnostic sample of veterans where participants experience for themselves, what it takes to work with horses in a way that cultivates nervous system regulation as well as how to manage triggers that happen at work and at home. We build clients' capacity to handle life's challenges and to build healthy, authentic relationships among those with whom they live and work. To this end, researchers and clinicians at the va and yale university conducted this 12-week pilot project in fall 2022 through spring 2023. The design included a control sample as well as a trial sample of veterans who struggle with emotion regulation and social engagement. We are very pleased that the initial findings from this study are extremely positive and that our curriculum is viewed as a valuable complement to traditional approaches to mental health counseling. We hope that this study may lead us to become one of two evidence-based programs for veterans in the us. This year, we also trained six new facilitators to deliver our program in north carolina,…
$249,675 spent$72,479 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $249,675.
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 2019 to 2020, from $222k to $746k (+237%).
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: 2022 9% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of THE EQUUS EFFECT INC’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. 0 of the last 8 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
Jane Strong
Executive director/board m
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $2k → $123k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 EQUUS EFFECT 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
THE EQUUS EFFECT 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
52% 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 EQUUS EFFECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 71% · 2020 61% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 26% — 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
73% of THE EQUUS EFFECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
51% of THE EQUUS EFFECT 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 $453k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $468k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE EQUUS EFFECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE EQUUS EFFECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $112k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$112k
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 THE EQUUS EFFECT 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 Connecticut
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
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EQUUS EFFECT INC: 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 EQUUS EFFECT INC?
- THE EQUUS EFFECT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $921,590 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($287,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE EQUUS EFFECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $921,590 in grants to THE EQUUS EFFECT INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EQUUS EFFECT INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $287,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EQUUS EFFECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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