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THREE GAITS INC

EIN 39-1472538 STOUGHTON, WI

Largest nonprofits in Wisconsin

Revenue 2024
$556,837
Expenses 2024
$477,284

Program services were 70.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N69Z
Classification
1000
Street
3741 STATE ROAD 138

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 · 2024

Mission

THREE GAITS, INC., IS A NONPROFIT, TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO PROVIDE EQUINE-ASSISTED ACTIVITIES AND THERAPIES THAT ENHANCE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND/OR INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES. THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP USES EQUINE-ORIENTED ACTIVITIES TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF EACH PARTICIPANT'S COGNITIVE, PHYSICAL, AND COMMUNICATIVE ABILITIES, AND POSITIVE SELF-ESTEEM. THREE GAITS STRIVES TO SERVE INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS WITHIN DANE COUNTY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

  • OCCUPATIONAL/PHYSICAL THERAPY USING THE MOVEMENT OF THE HORSE (ALSO CALLED HIPPOTHERAPY). SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY LICENSED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PROFESSIONALS, FOLLOWING THE STATE OF WISCONSIN AND NBCOT CRITERIA. IN INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT SESSIONS, CLIENTS EXPERIENCE UNIQUELY DESIGNED ACTIVITIES AND EXERCISES ON/WITH THE HORSE TO ACHIEVE THERAPY-DRIVEN GOALS. BENEFITS INCLUDE: IMPROVEMENT IN COMPLEX MOTOR CONTROL, ENGAGEMENT OF COGNITIVE, SENSORY AND NEUROMOTOR SYSTEMS, IMPROVEMENT IN SENSORY PROCESSING, SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIAL AND PLAY PARTICIPATION. THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING: THIS PROGRAM IS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WITH A COGNITIVE OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY THAT PRECLUDES THEM FROM HORSEBACK RIDING IN A TRADITIONAL SETTING. TAUGHT BY PATH, INT'L (PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INTERNATIONAL) CERTIFIED THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTRUCTORS, STUDENTS ACHIEVE SPECIFIC GOALS FOCUSED ON IMPROVING PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL ABILITIES THROUGH LEARNING THE SKILLS OF HORSEBACK RIDING IN A GROUP SETTING. UNMOUNTED HORSEMANSHIP IS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE A COGNITIVE OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY THAT PRECLUDES THEM FROM HORSEBACK RIDING SAFELY IN ANY SETTING OR DO NOT WISH TO RIDE, BUT BENEFIT FROM BEING WITH HORSES. STUDENTS LEARN TO SAFELY GROOM, LEAD AND INTERACT WITH HORSES UNDER THE INSTRUCTION OF PATH, INT'L (PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INTERNATIONAL) CERTIFIED THERAPEUTIC RIDING INSTRUCTORS. THEIR GOALS ALSO INCLUDE BUILDING STRENGTH AND BALANCE, EMOTIONAL REGULATION, SELF- AND SPATIAL AWARENESS, MOVEMENT COORDINATION AND FOLLOWING MULTI-STEP DIRECTIONS.

    Expenses $296,296 · Revenue $177,598

  • BOARDING EXPENSES RELATED TO FORM 990-T.

    Expenses $38,420

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dan Henning

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Bachhuber

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ardath Griffin

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angela Wallace

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Anderson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eloise Eager

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Beth Jeff Phillips

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jolie Hope

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $76,742
    From this org
    $65,942
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,800
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $556,837
    Expenses
    $477,284
    Contributions
    $336,170
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $385,023
    Expenses
    $395,765
    Contributions
    $236,587
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $410,033
    Expenses
    $331,255
    Contributions
    $288,035
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $372,937
    Expenses
    $343,197
    Assets (EOY)
    $350,661

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $373,124
    Expenses
    $329,174
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,836

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $426,667
    Expenses
    $434,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $235,450

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $420,405
    Expenses
    $390,380
    Assets (EOY)
    $198,661

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $379,184
    Expenses
    $333,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $188,815

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

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.