Special Equestrians

Analysis

Special Equestrians is a registered charity in United States, based in Warrington, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Special Equestrians reported income of $559k and spending of $538k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $429k to $559k (+30%), an average of +6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Special Equestrians sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 70th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Clarkston Community Center Foundation Inc ($558k), Mesa Ho Ho Kam Foundation Inc ($559k) and Southern Sudanese Community Center of San Diego ($558k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 53% and program service revenue 36% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $67k (12% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $252k. At year end it held assets of $504k against liabilities of $31k, net assets of $472k. It reported 24 employees.