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The Jockey Club

The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$7.4MRecreation & Sports$2.0MHealth$160kEducation$125kPhilanthropy$100kMembership Benefit$45kCivil Rights$20k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,544,725, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,621,475 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $76,750 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundation$1,389,725
Bluegrass Community Foundation$50,000
Ed Brown Society$50,000
Horse Country$25,000
Animal Wellness Action$10,000
Amplify Horse Racing Inc$10,000
Humane World for Animals (formerly Humane Society of the United States)$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%6 Animal Wellness Action: $25k → 14%Animal Wellness Action: $15k → 14%Animal Wellness Action: $10k → 14%Animal Wellness Action: $10k → 14%Animal Wellness Action: $10k → 14%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 7 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$7.7M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+19%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesMembership BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TA
    THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +50% · 56% of their budget
  • RO
    RACING OFFICIALS ACCREDITATIONPROGRAM INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $88k · revenue +12% · 57% of their budget
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • HI
    HORSERACING INTEGRITY AND SAFETY AUTHORITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.9M · revenue +311%
  • RF
    RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -15%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
2
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…

Animals
3
Humane Farm Animal Care

Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O

Animals
4
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
5
National Thoroughbred Racing Association Inc

The ntra is a broadly defined membership association that is charged with increasing the popularity, welfare and integrity of thoroughbred racing.

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6
Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses
Animals
7
Saving America's Mustangs
Education
8
World Ranch Horse Association
Animals
9
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
10
Equine Advocacy of Louisiana
—
11
International Equine Information Inc
Philanthropy
12
Keeping Racing Alive
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Racing Officials Accreditationprogram 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 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $7,296,725 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE+3 more: $130,000 · AnimalsHORSERACING INTEGRITY AND SAFETY AUTHORITY INC: $1,868,907 · Community ImprovementHORSERACING INTEGRITY …RACING OFFICIALS ACCREDITATIONPROGRAM INC: $87,500 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $50,000 · OtherPHOENIX RISING OF LEXINGTON KENUTCKY INC: $20,000 · OtherAMPLIFY HORSE RACING: $20,000 · OtherTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $10,000 · OtherRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $100,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · HealthBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyED BROWN SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION: $70,000 · Human ServicesHORSE COUNTRY INC: $45,000 · Membership Benefit
Animals$7,426,725Community Improvement$1,956,407Other$175,000Health$110,000Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$70,000Membership Benefit$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $7,296,725 over 5y, 56% of budgetHORSERACING INTEGRITY AND SAFETY AUTHORITY INC: $1,868,907 over 1y, 15% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRACING OFFICIALS ACCREDITATIONPROGRAM INC: $87,500 over 3y, 57% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION: $70,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRACING MEDICATION AND TESTING CONSORTIUM: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetED BROWN SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHORSE COUNTRY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAMPLIFY HORSE RACING: $20,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Blue Grass Community …
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Jockey Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jockey Club. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Jockey Club?

    Find your warmest path to The Jockey Club 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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