· Public charity
California Retirement Management Account
Carma grants funds to thoroughbred retirement facilities to support the care and retraining of horses whose careers have ended.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $479,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $504,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION | $167,000 |
| GEVA | $45,500 |
| REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY | $33,000 |
| SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION | $31,000 |
| HARMONY & HOPE HORSE HAVEN INC | $30,500 |
| WIN PLACE HOME | $30,000 |
| SANDIA CREEK RANCH AUXILARY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DOWN THE STRETCH RANCH | $28,000 |
| HOPE FOR HORSES INC | $18,000 |
| CANTER CALIFORNIA | $12,500 |
| AFTER THE HOMESTRETCH | $12,000 |
| OLD FRIENDS INC | $10,500 |
| WHISPERING MEADOWS RANCH | $10,000 |
| EQUINE ENCORE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| REMEMBER ME RESCUE | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UPUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $835k · revenue +37% · 28% of their budget
- HSHORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY8× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +80%
- SPSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- WRWHITE ROCK HORSE RESCUEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SHSAVING HORSES INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
501c3 horse rescue
Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.
Equine rescue and rehabilitation
To rescue, rehab and re-home Thoroughbred horses off the track.
Pasture time rescues unwanted equines, especially draft horses, which could be destined for slaughter. we care for these animals for the remainder of their lives.
Animal rescue, we rescue equines from the slaughter pipeline and rehibilitation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healing Arenas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canter California. 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 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hope for Horses Inc ↗
- Who funds Dale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation ↗
- Who funds Down the Stretch Ranch ↗
- Who funds WIN PLACE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AND HOPE HORSE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds After the Homestretch-Arizona ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTER CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Humanity for Horses ↗
- Who funds Healing Arenas Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FRESH START SPORT HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGH SAVERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED REHAB CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RACEHORSE REMEMBER ME RESCUE FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds SAVING HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds HOOFS AND WOOFS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 California Retirement Management Account 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.
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.
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