How much did Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc grant in FY2024?

Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc reported 63 itemized grants totaling $1,036,965, out of $1,135,765 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc based?

Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc is based in KY.

Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc

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· Public charity

Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc

TCA's mission is to fund and facilitate the support of Thoroughbreds and the people who care for them.

$1.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$85k

Largest

01What you fund

0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Animals$2.8MReligion$695kRecreation & Sports$661kHuman Services$388kEmployment$300kHealth$179kPhilanthropy$149kEducation$134kOther$0

02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 63 grants below total $1,036,965 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,135,765 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,800 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 · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $139k
$10k–50k44 grants · $813k
$50k–250k1 grant · $85k

$10,300

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT	$85,000
BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE	$41,785
BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER	$35,000
RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMER	$31,500
EQUINE ENCORE CHARLES TOWN	$30,000
THOROUGHBRED INCENTIVE PROGRA	$30,000
KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT	$30,000
CARMA	$30,000
KY RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY	$30,000
BEYOND THE WIRE	$30,000
TAKE2 SECOND CAREER THOROUGHB	$30,000
BLUEGRASS FARMS CHARITIES	$29,000
RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMER	$25,500
BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOC	$22,500
RACING INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FO	$22,500

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, $328k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.2M · 74 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.2M

$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

-22%

Still filing today

96%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationReligionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther

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

RR
RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD
8× · 2017–2024 · $554k · revenue +1%
RT
RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $227k · revenue +37%
RT
RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN NEW YORK DIVISION
6× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +143%

Funded once

OT
OKLAHOMA THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT PROGRAM LTD
one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue 0% · 35% of their budget
TT
TAKE2 THOROUGHBRED PROGRAM
one grant, 2019 · $13k
GH
Godspeed Horse Hostel Inc
one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -83%

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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Thomas Foundation Second Chance Horse Rescue

Animals

Maryland a Haven for Horses

To provide a safe and dignified retirement for standardbred racehorses that no longer race.

—

Red Bucket Equine Rescue

Animals

Horse Rescue

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

Animals

Lillies of the Field Equine Rescue

Animals

Pastures of Point Lookout Inc

Animals

Athelets 4 Life Racehorse Retirement Rehabilitation

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

Animals

Epona Equine Rescue & Rehab

Animals

Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd

Animals

Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals

Thoroughbred Retirement Network of Louisiana

TRNL is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, retraining, retiring and rehoming thoroughbred ex-racehorses.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope After Racing Thoroughbreds and the most unlike its peers is Bluegrass Community & Technical College Foundation Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/81

the rest of the field

13%

240,396/1,819,484

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

81 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. 81 of the 97 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)

80/81

Grantees still filing

50/81

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$2,503,289Other$1,303,404Religion$457,112Human Services$327,648Employment$300,494Recreation & Sports$296,020Education$279,732

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 Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare AllianceKY109.5× affinity50 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance · Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Greater Good Charities · California Retirement Management Account · Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Nafzger Family Foundation · Equus Foundation Inc · The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation · Limestone Family Foundation 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 Charities of America Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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