South Carolina · Nonprofit
WISH UPON A HORSE INC
WISH UPON A HORSE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,022 to it, the largest being NAHIKIAN FAMILY FDN ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wexford Foundationshared funderslocal
- Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernationalportfolio match
- Oliver-Hoffmann Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $11.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 WISH UPON A HORSE 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
WISH UPON A HORSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
WISH UPON A HORSE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Wexford Foundationshared funderslocalSC · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 organizations near you
- Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Inernationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oliver-Hoffmann Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leeps Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Quarter Horse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Equestrian Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equus Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heal Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- USA Equestrian Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thoroughbred Charities of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Retirement Management Accountportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William C & Virginia M Blandford Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WISH UPON A HORSE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 WISH UPON A HORSE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WISH UPON A HORSE INC?
- WISH UPON A HORSE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,022 to it, the largest being NAHIKIAN FAMILY FDN ($3,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISH UPON A HORSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,022 in grants to WISH UPON A HORSE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISH UPON A HORSE INC?
- NAHIKIAN FAMILY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISH UPON A HORSE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing