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THE JOCKEY CLUB SAFETY NET FOUNDATION
THE JOCKEY CLUB SAFETY NET FOUNDATION provides financial relief and assistance to members of the thoroughbred industry and their families.
$427k
Granted FY2023
86
Grants
21
Communities
$36k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 99% of THE JOCKEY CLUB SAFETY NET FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2023 · 86 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k74 grants · $242k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $184k
$3,200
Median grant
21
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
- RTCA-NY$36,000
- DONNA DONOVAN$18,148
- ERIC GARY$18,000
- GWEN JOCSON$14,400
- HERIBERTO ORTIZ$14,400
- JAMES DONALD COMBS$14,000
- LUISA ALVAREZ$13,800
- DANNY WOLSEY$12,000
- MICHAEL STRAIGHT$12,000
- FLORIDA TRACKS- BACKSTRETCH$11,187
- HUMBERTO GARCIA$10,200
- PABLO MEJIA$10,200
- EDWIN MOLINARI$9,000
- KENTUCKY RACETRACK CHAPLAINCY$8,441
- RTCA-PA$7,948
02The need
03
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 106 repeat orgs$834k to everyone else
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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
106
201
Total granted
$2.6M
$734k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+15%
+63%
Still filing today
2%
3%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionPhilanthropyEmploymentHealthHuman ServicesOther
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
- MSMichael Straight7× · 2017–2023 · $128k
- DDDonna Donovan7× · 2017–2023 · $119k
- RTRace Track Chaplaincy of America - New York2× · 2017–2019 · $95k
Funded once
- RTRace Track Champlaincy of America - New Yorkone grant, 2018 · $59k
- RNRTCA- NY Divisionone 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.
04Your field
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.
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Race Track Chaplaincy of America
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.
Religion
2
Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation
Engage,educate, and excite everyone about the extraordinary kentucky derby experience!
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3
Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen
The purpose of the illinois thoroughbred horsemen's association benefit trust is to address concerns of inadequate healthcare coverage in the horse racing industry. the benefit trust makes health coverage available and/or provides for the…
Membership Benefit
4
Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame
Philanthropy
5
Knoxville Racing Charitable Org Inc
Assistance to race car drivers and promotion of race safety.
Health
6
California Thoroughbred Trainers
To foster and promote a healthy economic climate and public acceptance of thoroughbred horse racing.
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7
Christian Harness Horsemen's Association
To promote Christian fellowship, a wholesome environment and solid moral values in the horse racing industry to include evangelization and providing assistance to people in the industry who are struggling.
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8
Northern California Race Track
The overall mission of rtca, through councils and chaplains, is to make disciples for jesus christ through teaching, preaching, and ministering to the spiritual, emotional, physical, social and educational needs of those persons involved…
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9
Racing Medication and Testing Consortium
The consortium funds research, develops and promotes policy recommendations, and educates stakeholders in support of horse racing safety and integrity.
Animals
10
New England Horsemen's Benevolent
The organization's main purpose is to promote the sport of thoroughbred horse racing and promote the welfare of the personnel within the industry.
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11
Second Call Thoroughbred Adoption and Placement in
The mission is to help ex racehorses find a second career when they are finished racing. Each horse is evaluated and rehabilitated as needed and placed with qualified adopters.
Animals
12
Southern Tier Harness Horsemen's
To promote the welfare of harness racing in new york, and in doing so promote the welfare of our members.
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Racing Health and 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.
04the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$3,397,569Health$5,500Human Services$5,500Religion$4,500Employment$2,000Philanthropy$1,000
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.
Thoroughbred Charities of America IncKY16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Thoroughbred Charities of America 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Race Track Chaplaincy of California.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 953713774 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Race Track Chaplaincy of California, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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