Special Equestrians Inc.

“The 990 is reviewed by the board prior to filing it electronically”

“Each year the board members sign an ackknowledgement of any conflict of interest.”

“No officer's are paid at the point in time.”

“Governing documents are made available upon request.”

“Special event revenue was 216,144, which includes contributions of 204,142 which is included as fundraising income on line 1 net income from special events was 186,584”

“1. 23 new participants were added to our therapeutic horsemanship program in 2018-19. 2. The number of participants served each week, at the peak of our year, has held to over 95 participants. 3. Private and semi-private lessons are given to a limited number of riders with disabilities. Some private and semi-private lessons were given during the month of august when the regular classes are not offered. 4. Special equestrians has added an additional paid path, intl. Therapeutic riding instructor to our team of paid instructors. She is teaching on tuesdays in place of one of our instructors who needed to make a change in his teaching days. 5. Participants who cannot ride for medical or other reasons have been given new opportunities to groom our horses and participate in unmounted activities such as leading horses and horse care. This is part of our groundwork activity in our therapeutic horsemanship program. 6. Our outreach program has allowed us to not only get the word out about our therapeutic horsemanship program, but it has become a teaching tool as well. In 2018-19, we made 8 visits meeting 219 children and adults. 7. During this year, additional volunteer orientations were added to increase our volunteer numbers. We were able to add 48 new volunteers to our volunteer base. 8. Special equestrians therapeutic carriage driving program is beginning its third season after two successful years. Our therapeutic driving instructor taught his first season of students for therapeutic carriage driving in 2017-2018. This new program has allowed us to serve some participants who did not qualify for therapeutic horseback riding. Therapeutic driving is also an alternative equestrian skill to offer the people on our waiting list. If they wish, we keep a participant on the waiting list while they participate in the carriage driving program, giving them the option for future mounted activities. 9. Our activity specifically for veterans began in the fall of 2019. It is an equine assisted learning program which is facilitated by two of our path certified professionals. Our veterans brochure was created by fgcu students and it is being distributed around our community and at local vet centers. 10. In 2018-19, a new drill team was formed among our therapeutic riding students. This drill team is coached by our new tuesday instructor, sadie maxwell. These riders are excited and honored to be a part of this team. These riders are the most advanced of our riders with disabilities. These riders are all independent needing no leader or sidewalker. 11. Our path registered therapist, who is an occupational therapist, continues to offer her services at special equestrians using hippotherapy as a treatment modality. The term hippotherapy refers to how occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology professionals use evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning in the purposeful manipulation of equine movement to engage sensory, neuromotor, and cognitive systems to achieve functional outcomes in a client. We are now partnering with our therapist to offer these services, which began with the first clients in 2018. The name of our therapists service is strides occupational therapy services. 12. In 2018-19, background checks were continued for new volunteers who are 18 and over. This process was instituted in 2015 and has been a very successful addition to our volunteer orientation and requirements. 13. Special equestrians continued working with chris cook of wild horsemanship center in reddick, florida in 2018-19. Chris is a horse development specialist whose mission is to help therapeutic riding centers use effective training methods for their therapeutic riding horses. These workshops have helped our horses to become happier in their jobs and our horse leader volunteers have become more skilled. This training ultimately helps the participants in the classes. 14. In 2018-19, two new horses were added to our herd. One new horse was”

“Professional fees 0 2,000 3,500 program instructors 22,262 0 0 contract labor 16,507 0 0 veterinarian 5,538 0 0 total 44,307 2,000 3,500”

“Book/tax adj on sale of assets -2,299”