· Public charity
Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club Inc
The mission of the organization is to foster cooperation and understanding among members; to provide a forum for the discussion of topics critical to our profession, which will enhance and protect our professional interest; to promote fellowship among members; to be good stewards of the land and thoroughbred industry; and to be good…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $55,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $70,379 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,379 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
| BLUEGRASS FARMS CHARITIES | $7,500 |
| STABLE RECOVERY INC | $5,000 |
| GLUCK CENTER | $5,000 |
| HORSE FARM WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSIST | $5,000 |
| BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| KEEP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 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 FY2025, 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
- KEKENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +87% · 26% of their budget
- BGBLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +37%
- TATHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SCSPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INCone grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue -2%
- WLWILLIAM LAWRENCE AND BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +114%
- KEKENTUCKY EQUINE EDUCATION PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
To provide exclusively for the benefit, aid, relief, and assistance of the racing personnel employed in connection with horse racing who can demonstrate their need for financial assistance.
Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…
Horse country, inc. is a coordinated equine industry initiative to connect guests to the horse, land, and people of kentucky's signature equine industry through immerserive experiences at unique member locations. horse country, inc.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Lawrence and Blanche Hughes Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds STABLE RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KEEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM LAWRENCE AND BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC ↗
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · Mary K Oxley Foundation · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation · Julia & Isadore Klein Family Foundation Inc · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club Inc 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.