· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $835k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT | $85,000 |
| BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE | $40,000 |
| BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER | $35,000 |
| EQUINE ENCORE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BEYOND THE WIRE | $35,000 |
| THROUGHBRED INCENTIVE PROGRAM | $32,500 |
| TAKE2 SECOND CAREER THOROUGHB | $32,500 |
| RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMER | $31,800 |
| BLUEGRASS FARMS CHARITIES | $30,000 |
| KY RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY | $27,500 |
| RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMER | $25,500 |
| RACING INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FO | $23,000 |
| BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOC | $23,000 |
| RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMER | $23,000 |
| DELAWARE HORSEMENS ASSISTANC | $22,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $381k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RRRETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD9× · 2017–2025 · $639k · revenue +1%
- RTRACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $252k · revenue +37%
- RTRACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN NEW YORK DIVISION7× · 2017–2025 · $217k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- RTRace Track Chaplaincy of Californiaone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -20%
- OTOKLAHOMA THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT PROGRAM LTDone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue 0% · 35% of their budget
- TTTAKE2 THOROUGHBRED PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $13k
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.
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.
Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.
To provide a safe and dignified retirement for standardbred racehorses that no longer race.
To rescue, rehab and re-home Thoroughbred horses off the track.
Rescue former racehorses, provide retraining, provide rehabilitation and rehoming.
TRNL is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, retraining, retiring and rehoming thoroughbred ex-racehorses.
How this is measured
86 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. 86 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Jockey Club ↗
- Who funds RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA METROPOLITAN NEW YORK DIVISION ↗
- Who funds RACE TRACK CHAPLANICY OF AMERICA PA DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont Child Care Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EQUINE MANAGEMENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE 2 SECOND CAREER THOROUGHBRED PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HORSEMEN'S ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RACING INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds RERUN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND STRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds Down the Stretch Ranch ↗
- Who funds BROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCELLER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AKINDALE REHABILITATION & LAND CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE RACES INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND STANDARDBRED HORSEMEN'S ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Equine Encore Performance at Charles Town Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE WIRE INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE & HOUND RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNICATION ALLIANCE TO NETWORK THOROGHBRED EX-RACEHORSES ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SECRETARIAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dale and Patti Shirley Equine Encore Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FERDINAND INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RETIREMENT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT ↗
- Who funds UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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