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Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club Inc at a glance

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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…

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$220kEducation$148kHealth$59kReligion$49kFood & Nutrition$34kPhilanthropy$33kHuman Services$29kEmployment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $55,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $70,379 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,379 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM$15,000
THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA$7,500
BLUEGRASS FARMS CHARITIES$7,500
STABLE RECOVERY INC$5,000
BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER$5,000
GLUCK CENTER$5,000
HORSE FARM WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSIST$5,000
KEEP FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THROROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION: $11k → 7%SPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INC: $29k → 10%KY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $6k → 12%HORSE FARM WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSIST: $10k → 15%BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 15%KY FFA FOUNDATION: $5k → 21%FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY: $13k → 27%THROROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE: $11k → 10%HORSE FARM WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSIST: $5k → 15%BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $13k → 27%HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE: $10k → 10%HORSE FARM WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSIST: $5k → 15%HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE: $5k → 10%HORSE FARM WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSIST: $5k → 15%BLUEGRASS FARMS CHARITIES: $10k → 15%BLUEGRASS FARMS CHARITIES: $10k → 15%BLUEGRASS FARMS CHARITIES: $8k → 15%BLUEGRASS FARMS CHARITIES: $8k → 15%THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA: $8k → 15%THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA: $8k → 15%THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA: $8k → 15%STABLE RECOVERY INC: $30k → 15%THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%STABLE RECOVERY INC: $10k → 15%THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $6k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $25k → 15%GRAYSON JOCKEY CLUB: $5k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $25k → 15%THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $25k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $25k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $25k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: $35k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: $25k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: $25k → 15%KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM: $15k → 15%WILLIAM LAWRENCE & LANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 15%BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES: $8k → 15%BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES: $6k → 15%GLUCK CENTER: $10k → 15%GLUCK CENTER: $8k → 15%GLUCK CENTER: $6k → 15%RECIO FAMILY TRUST: $8k → 15%ANN HANLEY PARKINSON'S RESEARCH FUND: $7k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$520k · 12 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$520k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+43%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationReligionHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KE
    KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +87% · 26% of their budget
  • BG
    BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +37%
  • TA
    THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SC
    SPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue -2%
  • WL
    WILLIAM LAWRENCE AND BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +114%
  • KE
    KENTUCKY EQUINE EDUCATION PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Horse Hugs
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2
Kentucky Racing Health and Welfare Fund Inc

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.

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3
Stormwalker Ranch Equine
Human Services
4
International Equine Information Inc
Philanthropy
5
Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Foundation Inc

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…

Animals
6
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
7
Thomas Foundation Second Chance Horse Rescue
Animals
8
Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses
Animals
9
Equine Advocacy of Louisiana
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10
Tierney Equine Foundation
Recreation & Sports
11
Blue Horse Sanctuary
Animals
12
Horse Country Inc

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.…

Membership Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $225,000 · EducationKENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN…HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $25,911 · EducationHORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND …THE KEEP FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · EducationTHE KEEP FOUNDATION INCGLUCK CENTER: $28,500 · OtherGLUCK CENTERHORSE FARM WORKERS EDUCATIONAL ASSIST: $25,000 · OtherHORSE FARM WORKERS E…GRAYSON JOCKEY CLUB: $10,000 · OtherGRAYSON JOCKEY CLUBKENTUCKY EQUINE EDUCATION PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherKENTUCKY EQUINE EDUC…THE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE BACKSIDE LEARNIN…RECIO FAMILY TRUST: $7,500 · OtherRECIO FAMILY TRUSTANN HANLEY PARKINSON'S RESEARCH FUND: $7,000 · OtherANN HANLEY PARKINSON…CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $6,700 · OtherCENTRAL KENTUCKY RID…CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOP: $5,000 · OtherKY FFA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $38,900 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED AF…THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC: $22,500 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED CH…THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED RE…KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $5,685 · AnimalsKENTUCKY EQUINE…BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC: $48,900 · ReligionSTABLE RECOVERY INC: $45,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyWILLIAM LAWRENCE AND BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropySPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INC: $28,780 · Food & Nutrition
Education$273,411Other$114,700Animals$85,085Religion$48,900Health$45,000Philanthropy$37,000Food & Nutrition$28,780

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC: $225,000 over 9y, 26% of budgetBLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC: $48,900 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSTABLE RECOVERY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $38,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INC: $28,780 over 1y, 11% of budgetHORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $25,911 over 3y, 11% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KEEP FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAM LAWRENCE AND BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $6,700 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $5,685 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community …Thoroughbred Charitie…Mary K Oxley Foundati…Keeneland Foundation …Churchill Downs Incor…Julia & Isadore Klein…The Charles and Mary …W L Lyons Brown Found…Honorable Order of Ke…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers' Club Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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