Oregon · Nonprofit
Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary
Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,838 to it, the largest being IDEALISTIC CAUSE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary does
Mission
Organizations primary exempt purpose: To rescue special needs equines and provide sanctuary and healing for them while creating a healing place for humans and the earth. Line 28: EQUINE WELLBEING PROGRAM. We rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abandoned, neglected, and special needs equines, directly serving 20 and monitoring 30 adopted animals annually. For those we cannot assist directly, we offer resources and consultation, supporting an additional 150 . Line 29: ECOLOGICAL WELLBEING. We sustainably manage the property and bordering stream and forest, restoring the watershed, managing pasture health and educating people on the importance of conservation practices. Our streamside forest, naturescaping, commercial composter, and pasture management serve as models to educate and support the community in adopting sustainable property practices, engaging 300 people annually. We also donate 80,000 lbs of compost to community gardens. Line 30: HUMAN WELLBEING: We facilitate connections between equines and humans through workshops, retreats, and service to animals, promoting healing, growth, and sanctuary for both
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
EQUINE WELL BEINGSee Schedule O statement 5
$76,403 spent94% of program spendingECOLOGICAL WELL BEINGSee Schedule O statement 5
$1,817 spent2% of program spendingHUMAN WELL BEINGSee Schedule O statement 5
$3,028 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,248.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $105k to $140k (+34%).
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.
86% of Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michael Vanderwater
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $7k → $32k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary’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
Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
38% 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 Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 98% · 2022 51% · 2023 31% — 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
67% of Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 64% 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
Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
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 Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary: 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 Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary?
- Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,838 to it, the largest being IDEALISTIC CAUSE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $184,838 in grants to Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary?
- IDEALISTIC CAUSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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