· Public charity
The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation
Established in 1943, the foundation is a charitable trust that provides, on a confidential basis, financial relief and assistance to members of the thoroughbred industry who are in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k74 grants · $242k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,148 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,187 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| KENTUCKY RACETRACK CHAPLAINCY | $8,441 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,948 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
106 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2023, 59 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- KRKentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +151%
- BGBLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +37%
- BCBelmont Child Care Association Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- RTRace Track Champlaincy of America - New Yorkone grant, 2018 · $59k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $55k
- RTRace Track Chaplaincy of America NY Divisionone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
Bring the word of god and his teachings to the people of the horse racing industry in order to bring them god's grace and salvation through accepting jesus christ as their lord and saviour.
To provide social service, recreational, educational and children's enrichment programs.
To protect the health, safety, and welfare of horses.
The take2 second career thoroughbred program inc is committed to promoting and developing second careers for racehorses when they have retired from racing.
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.
Religious ministry through school assemblies, youth rallies, prison ministry, horse shows and other horse-related events.
To promote harness racing with special regard to the saratoga springs, new york area and promote the welfare of its members.
Equine Encore Performance is dedicated to the rehoming, repurposing, and retirement of thoroughbred race horses that have raced and trained at Hollywood Casino and Racetrack located in Charles Town, WV.
To foster and promote a healthy economic climate and a higher level of public acceptance of the thoroughbred horse racing industry. to work for the improvement of living and working conditions for the employees of members and to provide…
To preserve the welfare of low income families who have a family member employed by a horseperson as their on track employee at canterbury downs, a live horse racing track in minnesota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Race Track Chaplaincy of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Race Track Chaplaincy of California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 344 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · Nafzger Family Foundation · Mary K Oxley Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation 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.
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