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Rocking Horse Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$20kAnimals$18kHealth$13kYouth Development$11kEducation$3kFood & Nutrition$2kScience & Tech$531Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$233k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS FOUNDATION$500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES: $2k → 13%EL SOL: $5k → 11%EL SOL: $1k → 11%EL SOL: $1k → 11%EL SOL: $1k → 11%CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN: $2k → 10%EL SOL: $500 → 11%CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN: $1k → 10%CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN: $1k → 10%PLACE OF HOPE: $1k → 11%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43k · 10 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +264% since the first grant, against +102% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$43k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+264%
+102%

Still filing today

60%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionScience & TechOther
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

  • ES
    El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +111%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +511%
  • CC
    CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $4k · revenue +264%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIVIERA BEACH
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • MI
    MyClinic Inc dba HealthyMegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +55%
  • CE
    CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
2
Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter Inc

To provide necessary treatment for wild birds that are injured, sick, or orphaned.

Animals
3
St Augustine Humane Society Inc

Promoting healthy responsible lifelong pet ownership by serving the medical and rehabilitative needs of animals while encouraging the humane treatment of animals, preventing overpopulation, and ending animal cruelty.

Animals
4
The Humane Society of the Nature Coast Inc

To support and care for animals sheltered resulting from abandonment, abuse or misfortune.

Animals
5
Happy Paws Haven Co

Happy Paws Haven Co. is a foster based animal rescue agency that helps animals in need.

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6
Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc

Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.

Animals
7
Turtle Conservancy

The turtle conservancy is dedicated to protecting threatened turtles and tortoises and their habitats worldwide, and to promoting their appreciation by people.

Animals
8
Humane Society of Ocean City Inc

To promote and further the protection of animals and provide for prevention of cruelty to the same within the city of ocean city and surrounding areas. the organization also maintains shelter for protection, care, and welfare of animals…

Animals
9
Loving Hands Childrens Home

Provide loving home environment, continuity of care, and empowerment of displaced and fragile children.

Housing & Shelter
10
Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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11
Humane Society at Lakewood Ranch Inc

To offer a safe environment and shelter for companion animals including medical care, vaccinations, and micro-chipping by loving and caring individuals, until we can adopt them into a new suitable home. We do this with 100% private…

Animals
12
Fostering Hope Inc

Provide facility, clothing and personal care items to numerous displaced children of Horry County. Create foster care awareness. Multiple organizations are visited monthly.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mustard Seed Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pet Cottage 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

12 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. 12 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUINE RESCUE: $10,907 · OtherEQUINE RESCUEPALM BEACH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,360 · OtherPALM BEACH CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIVIERA BEACH: $4,611 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIVIERA BEACHHUMANE SOCIETY - TREASURE COAST: $4,166 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY - TREASURE COASTCHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT CENTER: $2,860 · OtherCHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $2,123 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PB COUNTY: $2,105 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PB COUNTYFULL CIRCLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · Other+4 more: $3,133 · Other+4 moreEl Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc: $9,355 · Human ServicesEl Sol Jupiters Neighborho…CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN INC: $3,617 · Human ServicesCARING CHILDREN CLOTHING C…MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES IN…PLACE OF HOPE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $4,189 · Youth DevelopmentMyClinic Inc dba HealthyMe: $4,000 · HealthTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $1,500 · AnimalsPet Cottage Inc: $765 · AnimalsChristians Reaching Out To Society Inc: $1,531 · ReligionLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $531 · Science & TechHUMBLE BEGINNINGS FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Education
Other$38,765Human Services$15,972Youth Development$4,189Health$4,000Animals$2,265Religion$1,531Science & Tech$531Education$500

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 budgetEl Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc: $9,355 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $4,189 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMyClinic Inc dba HealthyMe: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN INC: $3,617 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetChristians Reaching Out To Society Inc: $1,531 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOLLY'S HOUSE INC: $1,265 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPet Cottage Inc: $765 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTREASURE COAST WILDLIFE HOSPITAL INC: $531 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $531 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MyClinic Inc dba HealthyMe ↗
  • Who funds CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Christians Reaching Out To Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds MOLLY'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Pet Cottage Inc ↗
  • Who funds TREASURE COAST WILDLIFE HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗

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.

United Way of Palm Be…W and H Thomas Charit…The Community Foundat…Allegany Franciscan M…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Palm Beach County IncFL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Rocking Horse Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rocking Horse Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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How do I get to Rocking Horse Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rocking Horse Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 24 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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