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SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC

EIN 63-1064900 INDIAN SPGS, AL

Revenue 2024
$349,066
Expenses 2024
$320,644

Program services were 88.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P82
Classification
2000
Street
1215 WOODWARD DR

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

Our Vision: A community where the impossible becomes possible. Our mission: To enrich the lives of people with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through a relationship with a horse.

  • Special Equestrians provides therapeutic riding and hippotherapy to children and adults with a wide range of mental, physical, developmental and emotional disabilities. These disabilities include but are not limited to autism spectrum disorders, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. Individuals participate in weekly lessons during three terms: Fall, Spring and Summer. A typical lesson is taught by a certifed Therapeutic Riding Instructor with training specific to people with disabilities. It lasts 35 - 45 minutes and teaches riding skills appropriate to the individuals abilties. Classes may also include caring for, grooming, and tacking the horse. Special Equestrians serve over 100 individuals a year and holds Premier Accredited Status, the highest recognition possible, from PATH International (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship). The objective of the program is to maximize the physical, cognitive and emotional benefits of therapeutic horseback riding for each participant. Many of the physical benefits are related to the fact that the tri-dimensional hip action of the horse is similar to that of a human. The motion of the horse stimulates dormant nerves, while relaxing and stretching the muscles. It helps to enhance balance, strength and endurance while stimulating circulation and respiration. Therapeutic riding also provides many emotional and psychological benefits. It requires focus, memory utilization, motor planning, sequencing and decision-making skills. Riding necessitates the development of human-animal bonding skills and the ability to respond and adapt to changing situations. It can allow those who demonstrate aggression and/or hyperactivity to channel their behavior into constructive activity and improve the ability or will to follow directions.

    Expenses $283,031 · Revenue $30,628

  • The development of these skills improves a riders performance during the riding lesson and often carries forward into their daily lives outside the arena. Program participants most often experience increased confidence, motivation, and self-esteem from learning to control a horse. Perhaps most importantly, riding offers individuals with disabilities freedom - the freedom to be who they are without the restrictions placed on them by their disability. The success of the therapeutic riding program is best seen in the achievements of the riders: Their ability to execute more complex maneuvers and to ride at faster gaits, their increased participation in the lessons and interactions with the horses, volunteers, and staff and their improved quality of life. Special Equestrians Inc. is fortunate to receive over $27,142 in donated services in addition to the use of the 13 acres on which it operates its program, all of which are not reported herein, in order to complete its mission. Additionally, over 200 volunteers provided over 8,000 hours toward our mission accomplishment.

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Patricia S York

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Natalie Nixon

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Catherine McLean

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tyler Cromey

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brooke Jordan

    General Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Martha K Griffith

    General Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas A Novack

    General Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • J Thomas Houston

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggy Sedlacek

    General Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Isam Culver

    General Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Doug Corey

    General Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kathleen M Claybrook

    Executive Director

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $349,066
    Expenses
    $320,644
    Contributions
    $213,002
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $275,793
    Expenses
    $281,425
    Contributions
    $140,934
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $339,911
    Expenses
    $301,427
    Contributions
    $231,279
    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
    $287,573
    Expenses
    $249,148
    Assets (EOY)
    $315,541

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $252,070
    Expenses
    $229,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $247,883

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $283,979
    Expenses
    $269,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,277

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $282,125
    Expenses
    $267,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $213,503

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $269,472
    Expenses
    $258,115
    Assets (EOY)
    $193,593

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $304,196
    Expenses
    $253,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $182,236

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $224,651
    Expenses
    $227,361
    Assets (EOY)
    $131,387

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $213,264
    Expenses
    $221,615
    Assets (EOY)
    $134,097

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $210,631
    Expenses
    $207,607
    Assets (EOY)
    $142,448

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $211,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $139,424

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.