· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +11%
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 344 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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