California · Nonprofit
WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE
WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,546 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Wild Horse Fire Brigade does
Mission
The goal of Wild Horse Fire Brigade is to naturally and sustainably save Americas remaining native species wild horses and their genetic diversity by establishing several large-scale wilderness wildfire-grazing pilot programs using wild horses that are sourced from excess Native American horses, and government agencies (BLM, USFS) using existing law (Humane Transfer of Excess Animals)..
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Relocated over 65 american wild horses from government facilities and government agency auction sites where they were rewilded with an existing population at the hornbrook ranch on 80+ acres adjacent to county open range and us wilderness lands to mitigate wild fire dangers through fuel load reduction.
$64,520 spent80% of program spendingEstablished pilot education project partnering with the environmental studies department, california state university-sacramento in order to develop an ongoing internship program for the university's undergraduate program and higher degree level fellowship program.
$15,947 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,467.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $78k to $224k (+188%).
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 WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $780 → $6k.
2 of 4 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 WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE’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
WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 96% · 2023 67% — 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
100% of WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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
WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE: 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 WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE?
- WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,546 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,546 in grants to WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILD HORSE FIRE BRIGADE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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