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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
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
29
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 79 grants below total $4,013,094, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,135,694 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $122,600 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.5M
$38,500
Median grant
29
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC$150,000
SECOND STRIDE INC$150,000
UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION$150,000
OLD FRIENDS$150,000
NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION PROGRAM$150,000
MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC$150,000
RERUN INC$135,000
TRRAC THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE$110,000
AFTER THE RACES$104,000
CARIBBEAN THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE INC$90,000
CANTER MICHIGAN$70,000
SECRETARIAT CENTER$70,000
AKINDALE THOROUGHBRED RESCUE$70,000
KENTUCKY EQUINE ADOPTION CENTER$70,000
THIS OLD HORSE INC$66,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%This Old Horse Inc: $25k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE INC: $66k → 6%OUT SIDE IN INC: $43k → 8%This Old Horse Inc: $20k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE INC: $59k → 6%Outside In Inc: $35k → 8%This Old Horse Inc: $50k → 6%Out Side In Inc: $35k → 8%Out Side In Inc: $35k → 8%OUT SIDE IN INC: $30k → 8%Out Side In Inc: $30k → 8%Outside In Inc: $30k → 8%Out Side In Inc: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 94 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -39% for those 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

94
3

Total granted

$27M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
AnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

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 +167%
  • 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
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New Hope Farm Inc

Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.

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2
Horse Rescue

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

Animals
3
Thomas Foundation Second Chance Horse Rescue
Animals
4
Rainfall Ranch Rescue

Equine rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
5
Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd
Animals
6
Epona Equine Rescue & Rehab
Animals
7
Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals
8
Red Bucket Equine Rescue
Animals
9
Lillies of the Field Equine Rescue
Animals
10
Athelets 4 Life Racehorse Retirement Rehabilitation

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

Animals
11
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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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rerun Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

43
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/95
Grantees still filing
68/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $1,412,161 · AnimalsNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTIONOld Friends Inc: $1,300,000 · AnimalsOld Friends IncTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,298,913 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INCMIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC: $1,115,200 · AnimalsMIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INCUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION: $980,000 · AnimalsRERUN INC: $970,360 · AnimalsEQUINE RESCUE OF AIKEN: $714,348 · Animals+70 more: $12,313,647 · Animals+70 moreFLORIDA THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT AND ADOPTIVE CARE: $780,000 · OtherFLORIDA THO…RACEHORSE REMEMBER ME RESCUE FOUNDA: $410,000 · OtherRACEHORSE R…War Horses At Rose Bower: $221,440 · OtherWar Horses …CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $207,000 · OtherCENTRAL KEN…Center for Racehorse Retraining: $181,000 · OtherCenter for …FRIENDS OF FERDINAND INC: $173,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF …NEW BEGINNINGS THOROUGHBREDS INC: $120,400 · OtherHOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC: $109,000 · OtherGLEN ELLEN VOCATIONAL ACADEMY INC: $372,000 · OtherGLEN ELLEN …+4 more: $197,500 · Other+4 moreAKINDALE REHABILITATION & LAND CONSERVATION FUND: $1,098,025 · EnvironmentSECOND STRIDE INC: $992,700 · PhilanthropySECRETARIAT CENTER INC: $756,000 · Recreation & SportsLife Horse Inc: $115,000 · Recreation & SportsSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION: $440,000 · HealthRACING FOR HOME INC: $115,000 · HealthOUT SIDE IN INC: $263,000 · Human ServicesTHIS OLD HORSE INC: $220,000 · Human Services
Animals$20,104,629Other$2,771,840Environment$1,098,025Philanthropy$992,700Recreation & Sports$871,000Health$555,000Human Services$483,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

  • Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
  • Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds AKINDALE REHABILITATION & LAND CONSERVATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SECOND STRIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RERUN INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT AND ADOPTIVE CARE ↗
  • Who funds SECRETARIAT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUINE RESCUE OF AIKEN ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RACEHORSE REMEMBER ME RESCUE FOUNDA ↗
  • Who funds AFTER THE RACES INC ↗
  • Who funds Caribbean Thoroughbred Aftercare Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNICATION ALLIANCE TO NETWORK THOROUGHBRED EX-RACEHORSES IN MI ↗
  • Who funds THOROUGHBRED ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEN ELLEN VOCATIONAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR MIMS RETIREMENT HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Dale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE FOXIE G FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EXCELLER FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds Down the Stretch Ranch ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY AND HOPE HORSE HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds TRRAC INC ↗
  • Who funds Hidden Acres Rescue for Thoroughbreds ↗
  • Who funds OUT SIDE IN INC ↗
  • Who funds GALLOPING OUT ↗
  • Who funds HORSE & HOUND RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Equine Rescue and Adoption Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds After the Homestretch-Arizona ↗
  • Who funds BROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope for Horses Inc ↗
  • Who funds WIN PLACE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds War Horses At Rose Bower ↗
  • Who funds THIS OLD HORSE INC ↗
  • Who funds South Florida SPCA Inc ↗

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 Charitie…The American Society …Churchill Downs Incor…Greater Good CharitiesCalifornia Retirement…Equus Foundation IncMiddleground Capital …Thornton S Jr and Kat…W L Lyons Brown Found…Leslie L Alexander Fo…The Murrell FoundationHumane World for Anim…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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