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THIS OLD HORSE INC

EIN 45-4234611 AFTON, MN

Revenue 2025
$1,165,209
Expenses 2025
$1,224,773

Program services were 92.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
13926 60TH ST S

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

THIS OLD HORSE, INC. PROVIDES RETIREMENT, RESCUE AND REHABILITATION TO OLDER AND UNWANTED HORSES THAT HAVE HAD A CAREER TO SERVICE HUMANS. THEY CONTINUE TO SERVE AS AMBASSADORS TO THE INCREDIBLE IMPACT OF 'HORSE POWER' BY FACILITATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF HORSEMANSHIP AND BEGINNING RIDING SKILLS TO OLDER AND SPECIAL NEEDS RIDERS.

  • THIS OLD HORSE, INC. IS A MINNESOTA-BASED 501(C)(3) EQUINE WELFARE ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE RESCUE, REHABILITATION, RETIREMENT, REHOMING, AND SANCTUARY OF HORSES IN NEED. DURING 2025, THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDED DIRECT CARE AND SERVICES TO APPROXIMATELY 200 HORSES DAILY ACROSS MULTIPLE LOCATIONS IN MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN, INCLUDING SANCTUARY FARMS, REHABILITATION FACILITIES, AND FOSTER PARTNERSHIPS. SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 2012, THIS OLD HORSE HAS HELPED MORE THAN 1,000 HORSES REPRESENTING 60 BREEDS. IN 2025, THE ORGANIZATION CONTINUED TO SERVE A DIVERSE POPULATION OF EQUINES, INCLUDING SENIOR HORSES, SPECIAL-NEEDS HORSES, RETIRED RACEHORSES, BROODMARES, DRAFT HORSES, MINIATURE HORSES, AND HORSES REQUIRING LIFELONG SANCTUARY. MAJOR PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING THE YEAR INCLUDED: O CONTINUED OPERATION OF RACEHORSE REIMAGINED, AN ACCREDITED AFTERCARE PROGRAM PROVIDING REHABILITATION, RETRAINING, RETIREMENT, AND REHOMING SERVICES FOR RETIRED THOROUGHBREDS, STANDARDBREDS, AND QUARTER HORSES. O EXPANSION OF THE DISTAFF, A SPECIALIZED RETIREMENT AND SANCTUARY PROGRAM FOR BROODMARES TRANSITIONING FROM BREEDING CAREERS. O ONGOING SANCTUARY AND LIFETIME CARE SERVICES FOR SENIOR, MEDICALLY COMPLEX, AND UNADOPTABLE HORSES REQUIRING PERMANENT PLACEMENT. O CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF EQUINE-ASSISTED PROGRAMS, INCLUDING KEVIN IN THE CITY, WHICH BRINGS MINIATURE HORSES INTO EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS TO SUPPORT SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING AND YOUTH ENGAGEMENT. O EXPANSION OF @LIBERTY, A HORSE-CENTERED WELLNESS INITIATIVE SERVING WOMEN DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER THROUGH FACILITATED INTERACTIONS WITH HORSES AT LIBERTY. O DEVELOPMENT OF THE HONOR GUARD, A VETERAN-FOCUSED INITIATIVE PAIRING RETIRED HORSES WITH VETERANS THROUGH CEREMONIAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. O PROVISION OF VETERINARY CARE, DENTAL CARE, FARRIER SERVICES, NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT, BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION, AND ADOPTION SERVICES FOR HORSES ENTERING THE ORGANIZATION'S CARE. IN ADDITION TO DIRECT HORSE SERVICES, THIS OLD HORSE ENGAGED HUNDREDS OF VOLUNTEERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, OUTREACH EVENTS, VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES, AND PUBLIC AWARENESS INITIATIVES PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE HORSE OWNERSHIP, EQUINE WELFARE, AND AFTERCARE. THE ORGANIZATION MAINTAINED ACCREDITATION THROUGH THE GLOBAL FEDERATION OF ANIMAL SANCTUARIES AND THE THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE, DEMONSTRATING CONTINUED ADHERENCE TO NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED STANDARDS OF EQUINE CARE, GOVERNANCE, AND TRANSPARENCY. THROUGH THESE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES, THIS OLD HORSE CONTINUED ITS MISSION OF ENSURING THAT HORSES IN NEED HAVE ACCESS TO SAFETY, DIGNITY, COMPASSIONATE CARE, AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A MEANINGFUL FUTURE.

    Expenses $1,134,530

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.

  • Kathleen Amerongen

    SECRETARY/TR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ellen Hill

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Kari Markham

    DIERCTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Thomas Rhode

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Brenda Teter

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nancy Turner

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,165,209
    Expenses
    $1,224,773
    Contributions
    $1,245,142
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,221,884
    Expenses
    $1,085,381
    Contributions
    $1,281,878
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,285,931
    Expenses
    $1,350,129
    Contributions
    $1,363,527
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $957,025
    Expenses
    $1,176,860
    Contributions
    $1,003,159
    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

  • 2025 · 990-T

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

  • 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
    $1,111,521
    Expenses
    $1,197,694
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,977,835

  • 2021 · 990-T

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

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $692,594
    Expenses
    $747,212
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,690,488

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $677,682
    Expenses
    $620,993
    Assets (EOY)
    $701,562

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $559,377
    Expenses
    $507,089
    Assets (EOY)
    $655,479

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $697,283
    Expenses
    $659,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $613,914

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.