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FREEDOM RIDE INC

EIN 59-3498545 ORLANDO, FL

Revenue 2025
$1,007,130
Expenses 2025
$578,684

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P807
Classification
1000
Street
3919 BAY LAKE RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

To enrich the lives and experiences of children and adults with disabilities in the Central Florida area through therapeutic horseback riding and related activities.

  • Founded in 1998 with one horse and one rider, Freedom Ride has grown a PATH International Member Centers and a leading provider of equine-assisted services in the Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties metropolitan area. Today, Freedom Ride operates from its 25-acre farm with a dedicated team of 12 staff members, a herd of 12 therapy horses, and an extensive volunteer network that helps make its mission possible. During 2025, Freedom Rides Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program served 90 children and adults with disabilities, providing 2,160 individual riding sessions. These individualized lessons helped participants improve balance, strength, coordination, confidence, and independence while benefiting from the unique bond between horse and rider. Freedom Rides Equine-Assisted Wellness Program served 390 individuals experiencing challenges such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse recovery, trauma, and other difficult life circumstances, including veterans served through the organizations partnership with the Orlando VA Medical Center. Participants received 18,720 individual 45-minute wellness sessions utilizing therapeutic groundwork and horse interactions to promote emotional resilience, self-awareness, and mental wellness. The organizations impact was strengthened by a dedicated corps of volunteers. Freedom Ride maintained approximately 100 active volunteers each week, many serving multiple days weekly in roles supporting program activities, horse care, barn operations, and facility maintenance. During the year, 129 volunteers were trained and engaged, contributing more than 8,997 volunteer hours in support of Freedom Rides programs and operations. Through the combined efforts of its staff, volunteers, and therapy horses, Freedom Ride provided transformative equine-assisted services to 480 participants during 2025, delivering more than 20,880 program sessions that improved physical, emotional, and mental well-being. As community demand continues to grow, Freedom Ride remains committed to expanding access to the healing power of horses for individuals and families throughout Central Florida.

    Expenses $520,544

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Veronica Whetro

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $29,962
    From this org
    $29,962
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $25,962
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $4,000
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $29,962

  • Chris Nemethy

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bradley Davis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Amy Daly

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Caitlyn Lewis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • Barbara Beasley

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Bette-Jo Foster

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

  • YvonneLogginsColeman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Brian Panzella

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jeffry Fletcher

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,007,130
    Expenses
    $578,684
    Contributions
    $791,182
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $599,744
    Expenses
    $628,071
    Contributions
    $305,032
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $679,045
    Expenses
    $596,271
    Contributions
    $436,957
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $920,494
    Expenses
    $559,702
    Contributions
    $606,345
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $696,727
    Expenses
    $543,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,775,082

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,195,368
    Expenses
    $427,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,254,454

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $659,395
    Expenses
    $408,709
    Assets (EOY)
    $492,980

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $405,364
    Expenses
    $359,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $243,034

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $432,712
    Expenses
    $328,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $199,503

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $318,739
    Expenses
    $315,972
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,984

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $298,315
    Expenses
    $306,600
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,247

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $241,023
    Expenses
    $277,693
    Assets (EOY)
    $95,859

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $357,403
    Expenses
    $286,182
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,770

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $241,022
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,864

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.