How much did THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE grant in FY2024?

THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE reported 83 grants totaling $3,804,590 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE based?

THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE is based in KY.

THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE

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· Public charity

THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE

THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE (taa) is an organization designed to serve as both the accrediting body for aftercare organizations that care for throughbred horses following the conclusion of their careers as well as a fundraising body to support these approved organizations.

$3.8M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$150k

Largest

01What you fund

0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Animals$17MEnvironment$1.0MPhilanthropy$843kRecreation & Sports$801kHealth$470kHuman Services$374kEmployment$328kPublic Benefit$20kOther$2.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

trylive outoverloving

2020

olderevaluateoverlovingtrylive out

2022

olderovertrylive outpeacefullovingleading

2023

olderleadingpeacefullive outlovingoverevaluate

2024

olderrisklovingsecureevaluateleadingpeaceful

2025

olderrisksecureleadingformer racehorsestrylive out

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k59 grants · $1.6M
$50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

OLD FRIENDS$150,000
SECOND STRIDE INC$150,000
UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION$150,000
MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC$150,000
NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION PROGRAM$150,000
THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC$150,000
RERUN INC$120,000
AKINDALE THOROUGHBRED RESCUE$105,000
SECRETARIAT CENTER$81,000
AFTER THE RACES$80,000
TRRAC THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE$80,000
CARIBBEAN THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE INC$78,000
KENTUCKY EQUINE ADOPTION CENTER$70,000
EQUINE RESCUE OF AIKEN$65,000
CANTER MICHIGAN$63,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 9%. 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$23M · 90 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

90 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23M

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+37%

Still filing today

94%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

NV
New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +193%
OF
Old Friends
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +105%
TR
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +109%

Funded once

SW
Saratoga Warhorse Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -39%
HC
Heaven Can Wait
one grant, 2017 · $10k

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.

New Hope Farm Inc

Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.

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Oregon Horse Rescue

Youth Development

Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd

Animals

Red Bucket Equine Rescue

Animals

Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines

Ryerss farm for aged enquines provides shelter and care for aged and abused horses.

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Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals

For the Love of the Hoof Inc

Animal rescue, We rescue equines from the slaughter pipeline and rehabilitate.

Animals

Miracle Horse Rescue Inc

miracle horse rescue is dedicated to the preservation and welfare of abused, neglected and unwanted horses. the organization provides a final home giving them the care they so justly deserve

Animals

Lillies of the Field Equine Rescue

Animals

Evanescent Mustang Rescue and Sanctuary Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals

Second Chances Equine Rescue Inc

Second Chances Equine Rescue Inc. is a not for profit organization that will provide a humane alternative for horses and other large animals; provide necessary care and training depending on individual circumstances to increase their…

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Hope for Horses Inc

Rehabilition of horses for adoption

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope After Racing Thoroughbreds and the most unlike its peers is After the Homestretch-Arizona. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/97

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,468

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.

05the grantee network

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

91/94

Grantees still filing

69/94

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$16,885,935Other$2,461,440Environment$1,028,025Philanthropy$842,700Recreation & Sports$801,000Health$470,000Human Services$374,000

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 IncKY110.1× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · The American Society for the Prevention · Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation · California Retirement Management Account · Equus Foundation Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · Take2 Second Career · Virginia Equine Alliance · Indiana Horsemen's Benevolent & · The Murrell 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 THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE 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.

2025

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8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: War Horses at Rose Bower.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461221754 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 War Horses at Rose Bower, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance?

Find your warmest path to Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance 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.

THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance?

More from the funding graph

THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance?

More from the funding graph