GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

D200

Classification

1000

Street

17250 OLD FREDERICK 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

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• GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE FURTHERS ITS MISSION BY ALSO ASSISTING HUMANE LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES BY OFFERING CONTROL AND CUSTODY DURING LITIGATIONS OF ABUSE AND NEGLECT, WE ARE OFTEN ABLE TO OFFER THIS RESOURCE AT NO COST TO THE HUMANE LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATION, FURTHER EMPOWERING THEM TO ENFORCE ANIMAL WELFARE LAW AND PROTECT MORE HORSES. WE ALSO OFFER OUR RESCUE SERVICES TO PRIVATE OWNERS OF HORSES WHO FIND THEMSELVES UNABLE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE NUTRITION AND/OR MEDICAL CARE TO THE ANIMALS THEY POSSESS, PREVENTING THOSE ANIMALS FROM FURTHER NEGLECT OR SUFFERING AND KEEPING MORE HORSES OUT OF THE HORSE SLAUGHTER AUCTION PIPELINE. GENTLE GIANTS OPERATES SEVERAL PUBLIC SAFETY NET PROGRAMS TO ASSIST ANIMALS IN NEED, SUCH AS OPERATION GELD - A CERTIFICATE BASED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR EQUINE CASTRATIONS WITHIN THE STATE OF MARYLAND; MARYLAND HAY BANK - WHICH PROVIDES SUPPORT OF HAY TO PRIVATE OWNERS FACING A TEMPORARY FINANCIAL CRISIS TO ASSIST THE HORSE OWNER DURING A BRIEF PERIOD OF NEED, AND TO KEEP HORSES IN HOMES; EUTHANASIA ASSISTANCE - TO FINANCIALLY PROVIDE FOR VETERINARY ADMINISTERED HUMANE EUTHANASIA OF HORSES IN EXTREME STATES OF ILLNESS AND INJURY IN WHICH REHABILITATION WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE OR EVEN CRUEL, PREVENTING HORSES WITH GRAVE INJURIES LIKE BROKEN LEGS, THOSE WHO ARE OF ADVANCED AGE, OR THOSE IN LATE-STAGE ILLNESS FROM SUFFERING THE ADDITIONAL HORROR OF LANGUISHING IN THEIR CURRENT STATE OR BEING SHIPPED TO SLAUGHTER IN THEIR FRAGILE CONDITION. GENTLE GIANTS ALSO EXTENDS DONATION-BASED TECHNICAL LARGE ANIMAL RESCUE SERVICES WITHIN A TWO-HOUR RADIUS OF OUR FACILITY. GENTLE GIANTS REACHES HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ANNUALLY TO EDUCATE THEM ON THE HORROR OF HORSE SLAUGHTER THROUGH PUBLIC EXPOSITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS, CLINICS, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, TOURS, SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, WEB-BASED INFORMATION, EMAIL, DIRECT MAIL, AND TELEPHONE. IN 2019, GENTLE GIANTS REACHED 1,953,905 INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS TO MAKE THEM AWARE OF THE FATE OF UNWANTED HORSES IN THE UNITED STATES. 59,381 PEOPLE JOINED MEMBERSHIP IN GENTLE GIANTS, RETURNING 118,762 SIGNED PETITIONS TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE TO STOP THE EXPORT OF HORSES FOR SLAUGHTER. GENTLE GIANTS IS ALSO ACTIVE IN THE MARYLAND HORSE COUNCIL, THE MARYLAND HORSE INDUSTRY BOARD, AND MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF RESCUES AND EQUINE SANCTUARIES.

  Expenses $7,065,626

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

  $11,704,633

  Expenses

  $8,822,206

  Contributions

  $11,361,965

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $9,341,594

  Expenses

  $7,870,722

  Contributions

  $8,715,253

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,413,542

  Expenses

  $7,064,247

  Contributions

  $6,901,213

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,413,542

  Expenses

  $7,064,247

  Contributions

  $6,901,213

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,527,257

  Expenses

  $6,834,156

  Contributions

  $7,611,984

  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

  $7,757,152

  Expenses

  $5,856,180

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,102,076

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,032,363

  Expenses

  $4,415,397

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,488,628

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,032,363

  Expenses

  $4,415,397

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,488,628

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,190,964

  Expenses

  $4,102,343

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,686,900

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,740,035

  Expenses

  $4,031,013

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,830,146

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,027,997

  Expenses

  $3,518,507

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,167,346

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,137,375

  Expenses

  $2,911,667

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,576,379

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,059,360

  Expenses

  $2,660,287

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,503,712

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,597,682

  Expenses

  $2,215,632

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,556,164

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,184,688

  Assets (EOY)

  $390,529

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

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $169,469

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $103,970

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $101,372

  2023

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $96,381

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $79,609

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $62,255

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $41,454

  2023 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

• OUR CHANGE FOUNDATION

  $40,434

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $35,078

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND

  $34,500

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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