SPECIAL SPIRIT INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

G80

Classification

1000

Street

9889 HELEN AVE

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

• The Adaptive Riding Program provides therapeutic horseback riding instruction to children and adults with physical, cognitive, developmental, and emotional disabilities. Instruction is delivered by trained staff and supported by volunteers to ensure participant safety and individualized assistance. In May 2025, the organization hired a Program & Operations Manager to strengthen program oversight, scheduling, and outreach. As a result, rider enrollment increased from 42 riders in 2024 to 63 riders in 2025, representing 50% growth year-over-year. During 2025, the program delivered 1,159 mounted lessons to 63 unique riders. Lessons are designed to improve balance, coordination, core strength, motor planning, communication skills, confidence, and social engagement. Approximately 28 regular volunteers assist weekly with lessons and horse care, contributing an estimated 2.5 hours per shift and supporting individualized instruction and program safety. Participants are referred through partnerships including the Regional Center, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, and community referrals. The organization maintains established safety protocols, instructor standards, and horse welfare practices to ensure program effectiveness.

  Expenses $111,687 · Grants $63,028 · Revenue $102,829

• The Equine Assisted Learning & Healing Program provides structured ground-based equine sessions designed to promote emotional regulation, resilience, communication skills, and personal development. Programs serve youth and adults experiencing emotional, behavioral, or life challenges. In 2025, the organization provided 38 rehabilitation group sessions for Annandale and expanded services to Pinnacle beginning in June 2025. Services continued for Grandview under renewed grant funding. Additional programming included community-based workshops, private sessions, and a four-day youth camp (Horses in the Hood). The program structure emphasizes experiential learning through guided horse interaction, teamwork exercises, and leadership development. All sessions are conducted under established safety and animal welfare standards. Participant referrals are received through public agencies and community partners, including the Regional Center, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, and Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.

  Expenses $60,139 · Grants $27,012 · Revenue $37,840

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.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $230,036

  Expenses

  $203,493

  Contributions

  $89,857

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $199,987

  Expenses

  $203,879

  Contributions

  $82,797

  Grants paid

  — not reported

• 2023

  Revenue

  $196,389

  Expenses

  $194,569

  Contributions

  $102,400

  Grants paid

  $135

• 2022

  Revenue

  $171,162

  Expenses

  $170,406

  Contributions

  $89,363

  Grants paid

  $245

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-EZ

  Revenue

  $155,743

  Expenses

  $144,005

  Assets (EOY)

  $137,667

• 2020 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $189,709

  Expenses

  $181,321

  Assets (EOY)

  $138,616

• 2019 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $180,098

  Expenses

  $167,500

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,629

• 2018 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $183,043

  Expenses

  $177,466

  Assets (EOY)

  $38,389

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2010

Tax period

1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010

Principal officer

Eva lund

Mailing address

9889 Helen AveShadow Hills CA 91040

Website

www.specialspirit.org

Doing business as

Special Spirit

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

  $16,725

  2023

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $10,947

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2022 · ANIMAL WELFARE

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $7,616

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA LEADERSHIP INC

  $5,000

  2023

Other IRS files