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Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance

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

$4.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
79
Itemized grants FY2025
82
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$4.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$38,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
62 to 82
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
29
Total assets, FY2025
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving79$4.0M1%
FY202482$3.7M7%
FY202378$3.5M1%
FY202279$3.6M5%
FY202078$3.4M12%
FY201971$3.3M11%
FY201867$2.9M10%
FY201762$2.5Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$24MRecreation & Sports$1.4MPhilanthropy$993kHealth$690kHuman Services$220kPublic Benefit$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 98 grantees
All grantees of Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Vocations Racehorse Adoption$1,412,161811%
Old Friends Inc$1,300,00088%
Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc$1,298,91389%
Midatlantic Horse Rescue Inc$1,115,200837%
Akindale Rehabilitation & Land Conservation Fund$1,098,025849%
Second Stride Inc$992,700835%
United Pegasus Foundation$980,000830%
Rerun Inc$970,360829%
Florida Thoroughbred Retirement and Adoptive Care$780,000762%
Secretariat Center Inc$756,000828%
Equine Rescue of Aiken$714,348819%
Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc$595,000822%
Square Peg Foundation$440,00087%
Racehorse Remember Me Rescue Founda$410,000859%
After the Races Inc$409,000818%
Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare Inc$403,000726%
Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses in Mi$383,500843%
Thoroughbred Athletes Inc$380,000844%
Glen Ellen Vocational Academy Inc$372,000833%
Our Mims Retirement Haven Inc$358,000841%
Dale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation$340,000654%
The Foxie G Foundation Inc$330,000811%
The Exceller Fund Inc$322,440829%
Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program Inc$305,500822%
Down the Stretch Ranch$295,000724%
Harmony and Hope Horse Haven Inc$285,500833%
Trrac Inc$275,000542%
Hidden Acres Rescue for Thoroughbreds$272,500819%
Out Side in Inc$263,00089%
Galloping Out$260,200825%
Horse & Hound Rescue Foundation$257,000624%
Equine Rescue and Adoption Foundation Inc$255,00079%
Horsepower Sanctuaries Inc Dba Redwings Horse Sanctuary$238,00083%
After the Homestretch-Arizona$233,500833%
Brook Hill Retirement Center for Horses Inc$230,00087%
Hope for Horses Inc$229,000836%
Win Place Home Inc$226,994622%
War Horses At Rose Bower$221,440899%
This Old Horse Inc$220,00056%
South Florida SPCA Inc$219,50086%
Lonestar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers$218,000825%
Harry A Biszantz Memorial Center Tranquility Farms$215,000825%
Central Kentucky Riding for Hope Inc$207,00075%
Beyond the Roses Equine Rescue and Retirement$202,000838%
Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue Inc$197,500712%
Bright Futures Farm$187,000876%
Center for Racehorse Retraining$181,000542%
Illinois Equine Humane Center Nfp$181,000826%
Second Call Thoroughbred Adoption and Placement In$180,000520%
Final Furlong Inc$179,500855%
Canter California$179,000854%
Friends of Ferdinand Inc$173,5005n/a
Lucky Orphans Horse Rescue Inc$171,000610%
Hope After Racing Thoroughbreds$164,700620%
Actt Naturally Inc$159,913629%
Los Angeles Pet Rescue$158,000515%
Thoroughbred Placement Resources Inc$153,000815%
Equine Advocates Incorporated$141,00081%
Second Chance Thoroughbreds Inc$139,200832%
Equestrian Inc$137,500839%
Canter Kentucky$131,000753%
Southern California Thoroughbred Rescue$127,500560%
Race Fund Inc$122,000742%
New Beginnings Thoroughbreds Inc$120,400644%
Rvr Horse Rescue Inc$115,000615%
Thoroughbred Retirement Network of Louisiana$115,000615%
Racing for Home Inc$115,000611%
Life Horse Inc$115,000642%
New England Equine Rescue - North Inc$112,50056%
Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc$109,00054%
Virginia Thoroughbred Project$108,000415%
The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty To$102,00050%
Therapeutic Horses of Saratoga Inc$99,00044%
Second Wind Thoroughbred Project$96,000625%
Circle a Home for Horses Inc$96,000413%
James River Horse Foundation$91,500411%
Days End Farm Horse Rescue Inc$90,00071%
Bowman Second Chance Thoroughbred Adoption$85,000417%
Humanity for Horses$80,00022%
Lucky Orphans Rescue Inc$73,5002n/a
Healing Arenas Inc$71,500543%
Blue Bloods Thoroughbred Adoption$71,200546%
Friends of Ferdinand Indiana Inc$70,000320%
Thoroughbred Retirement of Tampa Inc$65,000626%
Peaceful Ridge Rescue Inc$65,000415%
Oklahoma Thoroughbred Retirement Program Ltd$55,000329%
Desert Oasis Rescue Inc$55,000221%
Sandia Creek Ranch Aux Foundation$52,000337%
Mitchell Farm Equine Retirement Inc$50,00054%
Run for the Ribbons Inc$45,000214%
AFTER the Track$39,0003n/a
Rising Starr Horse Rescue Corp$35,00021%
Communication Alliance to Network Thorougbred Ex-Racehorses$35,000240%
Hpf-Rescue-Rehab-Rehome$31,50025%
Saratoga Warhorse Foundation Inc$20,00013%
Champions Retreat$15,000116%
Central Virginia Horse Rescue$15,00013%
Heaven Can Wait Inc$10,000122%

Where it is load-bearing

Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 43 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Vocations Racehorse Adoption: $1,412,161 over 8y, 11% of budgetOld Friends Inc: $1,300,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetThoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc: $1,298,913 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetMidatlantic Horse Rescue Inc: $1,115,200 over 8y, 37% of budgetAkindale Rehabilitation & Land Conservation Fund: $1,098,025 over 8y, 49% of budgetSecond Stride Inc: $992,700 over 8y, 35% of budgetUnited Pegasus Foundation: $980,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetRerun Inc: $970,360 over 8y, 29% of budgetFlorida Thoroughbred Retirement and Adoptive Care: $780,000 over 7y, 62% of budgetSecretariat Center Inc: $756,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetEquine Rescue of Aiken: $714,348 over 8y, 19% of budgetKentucky Equine Humane Center Inc: $595,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetSquare Peg Foundation: $440,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetRacehorse Remember Me Rescue Founda: $410,000 over 8y, 59% of budgetAfter the Races Inc: $409,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetCaribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare Inc: $403,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetCommunication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses in Mi: $383,500 over 8y, 43% of budgetThoroughbred Athletes Inc: $380,000 over 8y, 44% of budgetGlen Ellen Vocational Academy Inc: $372,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetOur Mims Retirement Haven Inc: $358,000 over 8y, 41% of budgetDale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation: $340,000 over 6y, 54% of budgetThe Foxie G Foundation Inc: $330,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetThe Exceller Fund Inc: $322,440 over 8y, 29% of budgetFinger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program Inc: $305,500 over 8y, 22% of budgetDown the Stretch Ranch: $295,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetHarmony and Hope Horse Haven Inc: $285,500 over 8y, 33% of budgetTrrac Inc: $275,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetHidden Acres Rescue for Thoroughbreds: $272,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetOut Side in Inc: $263,000 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetGalloping Out: $260,200 over 8y, 25% of budgetHorse & Hound Rescue Foundation: $257,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetEquine Rescue and Adoption Foundation Inc: $255,000 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetHorsepower Sanctuaries Inc Dba Redwings Horse Sanctuary: $238,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetAfter the Homestretch-Arizona: $233,500 over 8y, 33% of budgetBrook Hill Retirement Center for Horses Inc: $230,000 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetHope for Horses Inc: $229,000 over 8y, 36% of budgetWin Place Home Inc: $226,994 over 6y, 22% of budgetWar Horses At Rose Bower: $221,440 over 8y, 99% of budgetThis Old Horse Inc: $220,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetSouth Florida SPCA Inc: $219,500 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetLonestar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers: $218,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetHarry A Biszantz Memorial Center Tranquility Farms: $215,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetCentral Kentucky Riding for Hope Inc: $207,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetBeyond the Roses Equine Rescue and Retirement: $202,000 over 8y, 38% of budgetHeart of Phoenix Equine Rescue Inc: $197,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetBright Futures Farm: $187,000 over 8y, 76% of budgetCenter for Racehorse Retraining: $181,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetIllinois Equine Humane Center Nfp: $181,000 over 8y, 26% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 95.

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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.

Thoroughbred Charities of America IncKY109.5× affinity50 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 of Cruelty to Animals · Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation · Greater Good Charities · California Retirement Management Account · Equus Foundation Inc · Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Murrell Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc

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.

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About Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance

How much does Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance give?
Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance reported 79 itemized grants totaling $4,013,094, out of $4,135,694 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 82 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (88%), Recreation & Sports (5%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Vocations Racehorse Adoption ($1.4M), Old Friends Inc ($1.3M), Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc ($1.3M).
Does Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation.
Where is Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance based?
Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance is based in KY.

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 98 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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