Built to provide long-term financial stability, the Endowment allows the NHS to innovate, adapt, and advance as time goes on. It also works to perpetuate and revitalize the longstanding traditions of the NHS, ensuring that younger generations understand its history and significance.
Our Mission:
Built to provide long-term financial stability, the Endowment allows the NHS to innovate, adapt, and advance as time goes on. It also works to perpetuate and revitalize the longstanding traditions of the NHS, ensuring that younger generations understand its history and significance.
In alignment with this mission, the NHS has set a bold but attainable goal: raising $5 million over the next five years. This support will safeguard the future of the event while strengthening and preserving its heritage.
By sustaining both its traditions and its forward momentum, the Endowment ensures that the National Horse Show remains connected to its historic roots while continuing to evolve, stay relevant, and inspire for decades to come.
Our History:
The National Horse Show was established in 1883 by a group of influential sportsmen from New York. Today, the National is one of the most prestigious international equestrian competitions and is the second-oldest horse show in the United States. In order to carry on the legacy of the National Horse Show, the Board of Directors established an endowment in 2018 to help financially sustain the show into the next 140+ years. Throughout history, it has been the patrons of the National that have kept the horse show alive.
How Donations will be Used:
The Endowment Fund is a permanently invested fund that will enable the National Horse Show Association of America LTD (NHS) to sustain a commitment to excellence in serving its membership and ensuring the vital future for the NHS. The Fund will receive gifts, bequests, grants, and property with the income from the Fund to be used to defray expenses of the competition, grant allocation, trophy maintenance, educational programs, and general expenses of the NHS. Donations of $10,000 or more may be placed in the Endowment Fund with a memorial or honorary designation and the family may propose a purpose for the use of income generated by that designated fund, otherwise they will be placed in the General Purpose Account.
If you would like to discuss a donation method not outlined above, please reach out to:
Endowment Investment Committee
Co-Chair Endowment Investment Committee
Philip has 40+ years of experience in tax, business advice, and investment analysis. He has held prestigious roles such as Partner at Marcum & Kliegman LLP, Leader of Private Wealth Services and Alternative Investment Group practices at M&K. Currently, Philip leads head of Family Office Division of JSB Partners and is the founder of the Larry Kraus Family Office Tax & Tech-NEW-logy Institute.
Co-Chair Endowment Investment Committee
Cindi has 30+ years in the financial services industry. She currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer, Investment Products & Services at Stifel Financial Corporation. She also serves as the Vice President of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee for the National Horse Show. Cindi is a lifelong horsewoman, patron of the National and also competed at the National during 1975 when the show was at Madison Square Garden.
Additional Investment Committee Members:
Bryan Baldwin and Jennifer Burger.