United States Equestrian Federation Inc
Lexington, KY · EIN 56-2350714. Reported 37 grants totalling $604,600 to 30 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For United States Equestrian Federation Inc, the IRS classifies it under recreation & sports rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE N69) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 6% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for the Horse | Lexington, KY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United States Eventing Association | Leesburg, VA | $56,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Fleet of Angels Inc | Lakewood, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Valley Animal Disaster Group | Chico, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cloverleaf Equine Center | Clifton, VA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Detroit Horse Power | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Horsesensing Inc | Shelbyville, KY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tryon Equestrian Properties LLC | Mill Spring, NC | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City to Saddle | Rutland, TX | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Special Equestrians | Warrington, PA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m Foundation | College Sta, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beachwood Center for Wellbeing Inc | Wakefield, RI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ebony Horsewomen Inc | Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Giving Alternative Learners Uplifting Opportunities Inc | Forest Hills, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Great Oak Equine Assisted Programs | Aiken, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heartland Therapeutic Riding Inc | Overland Park, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Horses N Heroes of Marion County Inc | Citra, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kentucky Horse Council Inc | Lexington, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc | Lexington, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kindle Hill Foundation Charity | Gwynedd Vly, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center | Redmond, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue | Dover Plains, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manes for Movement Inc | Torrance, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maryland Therapeutic Riding Inc | Crownsville, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Solid Strides | Pleasant Hill, OR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Taking the Reins | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Live Oak Foundation | Ocala, FL | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wildstar Equine Assisted Activities and Therapy Inc | Sherborn, MA | $8,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Horse Park of New Jersey at Stone Tavern Inc | Allentown, NJ | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
6 of 30 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The Ohio State University
DRUG ADMINISTRATION STUDIES - The Foundation for the Horse
EQUINE RESEARCH & EDUCATION TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF SPORT HORSES - Fleet of Angels
EQUINE DISASTER RELIEF (CALIFORNIA WILD FIRES) - United States Eventing Association
RECOGNIZED AFFILIATE SUPPORT - City to Saddle Inc
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 30 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | $12,000 | $12,000 |
| 2021 | 9 | $100,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $234,600 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 13 | $258,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
23% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kentucky.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United States Equestrian Federation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4001 Wing Commander Way, Lexington, KY, 40511.
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