Missouri · Nonprofit
TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS
TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,745 to it, the largest being St Louis National Charity Horse Show ($201,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $550k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Tree House of Greater St Louis does
Mission
To improve the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families through therapy, recreation, education, and exploration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Therapy: occupational, physical, speech, and mental health services: hippotherapy literally means "treatment with the help of the horse". This term refers to how therapy professionals utilize evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning in the purposeful manipulation of equine movement to engage sensory, neuromotor, and cognitive systems to achieve functional outcomes. In conjunction with the affordances of the equine environment and other treatment strategies, hippotherapy is part of a patient's integrated plan of care. Each therapist creates a specialized treatment plan for the individual based on their disability and their personal/therapeutic goals. Therapy goals and objectives are monitored and modified as needed. (see schedule o)therapy: occupational, physical, speech, and mental health services (continued):specially trained volunteers assist as part of the therapy team under professional guidance. Mental health services provide an interactive approach for individuals coping with behavioral and emotional issues. This approach focuses on individuals interacting with horses in a variety of ways that foster a meaningful bond with the horse that can help the client in…
$574,656 spentof which $600 as grants$162,630 earned by the program68% of program spendingAdaptive therapeutic riding: individuals with disabilities focus on their personal therapeutic goals and everyday living skills through riding, groundwork, care and management, understanding and building relationships with the horse. Pa th certified therapeutic riding instructors facilitate this service and are trained to use the horse as a conduit to help individuals achieve therapeutic goals. Specially trained volunteers support the client under the direction of the certified therapeutic riding instructor. More independent clients increase their skills often without the assistance of trained volunteers. They learn techniques that accommodate their disability so independent horse care and management can be mastered. (see schedule o)adaptive therapeutic riding (continued):individuals focus on advanced riding skills and horsemanship, which helps to build skills and confidence needed for greater independence in daily life. Some of these clients may work towards competition in show team events. 35 individuals participated in adaptive therapeutic riding this year.
$266,440 spent$44,106 earned by the program32% of program spendingOther programming:th freedom reins: "th freedom reins" is aligned with a nationwide program that was created in 2007 by path and the veterans administration to assist america's wounded service personnel and veterans. Program participants include wounded service personnel and veterans with challenges such as: head and spinal cord injuries, amputation, auditory and visual impairments, and post-traumatic stress disorder. To achieve specific mental health, social, reintegration, and/or therapy goals, participants work within a supportive and empathetic environment. (see schedule o)other programming (continued): th freedom reins (continued): this environment is facilitated by path certified therapeutic riding instructors and/or licensed therapists, often with the assistance of specially trained volunteers who are frequently veterans/service personnel themselves. Summer camps: the organization offers therapeutic and recreational camps for children and young adults with disabilities on a limited basis. These small group, inclusive opportunities are designed to enhance horsemanship and riding skills along with nature-oriented activities. Licensed therapists and/or path certified…
$2,725 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $841,096.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $2.9M (+9%).
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 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 51% · 2024 57% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% 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
Nathan Harms
Executive director
Board chair
Amy Johnston
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $18k → $69k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS’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
TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
62% 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 TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 60% · 2019 49% · 2020 38% · 2021 25% · 2022 47% · 2023 22% — 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
42% of TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
78% of TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS?
- TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $549,745 to it, the largest being St Louis National Charity Horse Show ($201,500). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $549,745 in grants to TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS?
- St Louis National Charity Horse Show is the largest funder on record, with $201,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 23 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