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American Quarter Horse Association

To record and preserve the pedigree of the American Quarter Horse, while maintaining its welfare and integrity and promoting lifelong enjoyment of the breed.

$963k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$4.8MAnimals$612kArts & Culture$386kFood & Nutrition$242kCommunity Improvement$219kHousing & Shelter$167kHealth$131kCrime & Legal$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $537,531 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $963,442 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $425,911 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $324k
$16,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TR THE AMERICAN LLC$185,000
Racing Medication and Testing$76,000
PRCA Properties Inc$63,000
National High School Rodeo Association$35,000
South Point Hotel & Casino$35,000
THE RUN FOR A MILLION INC$30,000
Miss Rodeo America$25,000
LAZY E ARENA$16,000
Keith Stallbories$10,100
OTE BERRY DBA OTE BERRYS JR STEER WRESTING$10,000
RACING OFFICIALS ACCREDITATION PROGRAM$10,000
NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION$10,000
Pink Buckle LLC$10,000
Working Ranch Cowboys Association$10,000
ALL AMERICAN RUIDOSO DOWNS LLC$6,431
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AAEP Foundation Inc: $25k → 15%AAEP FOUDATION INC: $10k → 15%AAEP FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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IN
OH
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CO
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TN
NC
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LA
GA
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Grants abroad, by region — $382k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$184k · 48% · 16 grants
South America$65k · 17% · 3 grants
East Asia and the Pacific$48k · 13% · 4 grants
North America (Canada and Mexico)$41k · 11% · 1 grant
Middle East and North Africa$16k · 4% · 1 grant
Sub-Saharan Africa$16k · 4% · 2 grants
Central America and the Caribbean$12k · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: EDUCATIONAL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 39 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
55

Total granted

$5.4M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-6%

Still filing today

36%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementRecreation & SportsEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PM
    PRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $315k · revenue +3%
  • AQ
    AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $139k · revenue +133%
  • NH
    NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $115k
  • HL
    HRA LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $93k
  • TR
    TMB RACING LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $80k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Ranch Horse Association
Animals
2
Tri State Rodeo Association Shelby W Bearden
Recreation & Sports
3
National Horse Show Association of America Ltd

The national horse show association of america, ltd. was founded in 1883 and reorganized in 1972 as a nonprofit corporation. the association was organized to advance equestrian sports in the united states.

Recreation & Sports
4
National Intercollegiate Rodeo Foundation
5
National Cutting Horse Association

The ncha promotes and celebrates the cutting horse, whose origin on western ranches allows us to support ranching and its western heritage. by establishing rules for the conduct of cutting horse shows, ncha strives to give cutters a level…

6
National Thoroughbred Racing Association Inc

The ntra is a broadly defined membership association that is charged with increasing the popularity, welfare and integrity of thoroughbred racing.

7
Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame

The harness racing museum & hall of fame is dedicated to comprehensive, active and authoritative support and promotion of the standardbred racing through documentation and preservation of the history and traditions of this american-born…

Arts & Culture
8
Hubbard Rodeo Association
Animals
9
International Equine Information Inc
Philanthropy
10
American Quarter Horse Association

To record and preserve the pedigree of the American Quarter Horse, while maintaining its welfare and integrity and promoting lifelong enjoyment of the breed.

11
Colorado Professional Rodeo Association

This association sanctions rodeos in a four state region and sponsors a year end final rodeo for the top 12 contestants from each event.

12
American Paint Horse Association

The mission of the american paint horse association is to collect, record and preserve the pedigrees of american paint horses, and to stimulate and regulate all matters pertaining to the promotion, history, breeding and exhibition of this…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Reining Horse Association and the most unlike its peers is Remington Park Racing Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/100
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,465

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTAUR ACQUISITIONS LLC dba HORSESHOE INDY — $722,591 · OtherCENTAUR ACQUISITIONS LLC dba HORSESHOE INDYTHE DOWNS AT ALBUQUERQUE — $681,526 · OtherTHE DOWNS AT ALBUQUERQUEALL AMERICAN RUIDOSO DOWNS LLC dba RUIDOSO DOWNS — $469,173 · OtherALL AMERICAN RUIDOSO DOWNS LLC dba RUIDOSO DOWNSSAM HOUSTON RACE PARK — $365,849 · OtherSAM HOUSTON RACE PARKPRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC — $314,645 · OtherPRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INCPOCATELLO DOWNS — $284,501 · OtherLOS ALAMTOS RACE COURSE — $273,669 · OtherWILL ROGERS DOWNS — $267,183 · OtherPRCA PROPERTIES INC — $243,080 · Other+80 more — $2,090,967 · Other+80 moreRACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM — $201,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION — $138,790 · AnimalsNATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION — $171,800 · Community ImprovementMISS RODEO AMERICA INC — $101,474 · Community ImprovementRACING OFFICIALS ACCREDITATIONPROGRAM INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementUTAH QUARTER HORSE RACING ASSOCIATION INC — $31,514 · Community ImprovementAmerican Horse Council Foundation Inc — $112,000 · HealthEMERALD RACING CLUB — $65,139 · Recreation & SportsAMARILLO TRI-STATE EXPOSITION — $24,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL STATES FAIR — $24,500 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $6,000 · Education
Other$5,713,184Animals$339,790Community Improvement$339,788Health$112,000Recreation & Sports$99,139Human Services$45,000Education$30,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC — $314,645 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM — $201,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetNATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION — $171,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION — $138,790 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Horse Council Foundation Inc — $112,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOC — $105,224 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMISS RODEO AMERICA INC — $101,474 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetPROFESSIONAL RODEO COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC — $64,210 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRACING OFFICIALS ACCREDITATIONPROGRAM INC — $35,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetNorthern Internat'l Livestock Exposition — $34,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH QUARTER HORSE RACING ASSOCIATION INC — $31,514 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNATIONAL REINING HORSE ASSOCIATION — $29,644 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL STATES FAIR — $24,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMARILLO TRI-STATE EXPOSITION — $24,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL SNAFFLE BIT ASSOCIATION INC — $16,629 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION — $12,925 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO STATE FAIR FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING RANCH COWBOYS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUS LIVESTOCK GENETICS EXPORTS INC — $9,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROOKED RIVER ROUNDUP AND FAIR ASSN — $6,975 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRanching Heritage Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PRAIRIE MEADOWS RACE TRACK AND CASINO INC
  • Who funds RACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM
  • Who funds NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds American Horse Council Foundation Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL RODEO ASSOC
  • Who funds MISS RODEO AMERICA INC
  • Who funds EMERALD RACING CLUB
  • Who funds PROFESSIONAL RODEO COWBOYS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RACING OFFICIALS ACCREDITATIONPROGRAM INC
  • Who funds Northern Internat'l Livestock Exposition
  • Who funds UTAH QUARTER HORSE RACING ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL REINING HORSE ASSOCIATION

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA0.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Quarter Horse Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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