Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance

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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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$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 FY2017–2025.

Animals$20MEnvironment$1.1MPhilanthropy$993kRecreation & Sports$871kHealth$555kHuman Services$483kEmployment$372kPublic Benefit$20kOther$2.4M

02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 79 grants below total $4,013,094 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,135,694 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $122,600 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k50 grants · $1.5M
$50k–250k29 grants · $2.5M

$38,500

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SECOND STRIDE INC	$150,000
THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC	$150,000
MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC	$150,000
UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION	$150,000
OLD FRIENDS	$150,000
NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION PROGRAM	$150,000
RERUN INC	$135,000
TRRAC THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE	$110,000
AFTER THE RACES	$104,000
CARIBBEAN THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE INC	$90,000
KENTUCKY EQUINE ADOPTION CENTER	$70,000
CANTER MICHIGAN	$70,000
SECRETARIAT CENTER	$70,000
AKINDALE THOROUGHBRED RESCUE	$70,000
THIS OLD HORSE INC	$66,000

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 (FY17–25, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. 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 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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 94 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.

94 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$27M

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

-39%

Still filing today

95%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +193%
OF
Old Friends Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +105%
TR
THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +6%

Funded once

SW
SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -39%
CV
Central Virginia Horse Rescue
one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -105%
HC
HEAVEN CAN WAIT INC
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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Horse Rescue

To rescue, rehab and re-home Thoroughbred horses off the track.

Animals

Thomas Foundation Second Chance Horse Rescue

Animals

Rainfall Ranch Rescue

Equine rescue and rehabilitation

Animals

Epona Equine Rescue & Rehab

Animals

Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals

Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd

Animals

Red Bucket Equine Rescue

Animals

Lillies of the Field Equine Rescue

Animals

Athelets 4 Life Racehorse Retirement Rehabilitation

Rescue former racehorses, provide retraining, provide rehabilitation and rehoming.

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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Re-Ride Quarter Horse Adoption Program

The RERIDE Quarter Horse Adoption Program offers a safe haven for displaced or unwanted registered Quarter and Paint horses Our program focuses on rehabilitation retraining and adopting horses into qualified loving homes.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rerun Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Humane Society of Rochester & Monroe County for the Prevention of Cruelty to. 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/98

the rest of the field

13%

240,395/1,819,467

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.

04the grantee network

95 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. 95 of the 98 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

92/95

Grantees still filing

68/95

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$20,104,629Other$2,771,840Environment$1,098,025Philanthropy$992,700Recreation & Sports$871,000Health$555,000Human Services$483,000

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 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

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 Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

19get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

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: 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines