· Public charity
The Foundation for the Horse Fka the Aaep Foundation Inc
Founded in 1994, the foundation for the horse is governed and stewarded by equine veterinarians.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $1,103,258 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,508,919 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $405,661 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 $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $302k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $779k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $160,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS | $153,000 |
| EQUITARIAN INITIATIVE | $146,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $75,000 |
| NC STATE UNIVERSITY | $74,776 |
| VARIOUS OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS | $64,470 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $55,490 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $44,932 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $35,592 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $27,563 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $24,996 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $20,000 |
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k 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
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS8× · 2017–2025 · $938k · revenue +25%
- EIEQUITARIAN INITIATIVE8× · 2017–2025 · $558k · revenue +562% · 42% of their budget
- UOUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $74k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2022 · $38k
- GCGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +30%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Founded in 1994, the foundation for the horse is governed and stewarded by equine veterinarians. our mission to improve the health and welfare of horses is supported by the expertise of many world-renowned caregivers and researchers,…
The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…
The purpose of the virginia equine alliance is to sustain, promote, and expand the horse breeding and horse racing industries in the commonwealth of virginia. the alliance seeks to establish and support new and multiple venues for horse…
The foundation develops resources to advance the science and practice of veterinary medicine to improve animal and human health. donations help support care for animals in need, veterinary student scholarships, research, and community…
The mission of the consortium is to engage in research, education, and advocacy for science-based initiatives that promote the health and safety of the racehorse and the integrity of competition.
Through funding of rigorous research, outreach and education, horses and humans research foundation is a catalyst advancing global knowledge of horse-human interactions and their impact on health and wellness.
Equine Rescue and Adoption Foundation, Inc. (ERAF) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization devoted to the rescue, rehabilitation, retraining and adoption of abused, slaughter-bound, abandoned and neglected horses.
Providing equine veterinary hospital facilities and support services in the care of injured or sick race horses
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Association of Equine Practitioners and the most unlike its peers is Teva Cares Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 49 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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS ↗
- Who funds EQUITARIAN INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds American Horse Council Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE RACE FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds World Equine Veterinary Association ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Horse Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EQUINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF PHOENIX EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Teva Cares Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUND EQUINE OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD ↗
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: Humane World for Animals Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 The Foundation for the Horse Fka the Aaep Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.