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Tracy Farmer Foundation Inc at a glance

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Tracy Farmer Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$322kAnimals$49kHealth$41kEmployment$18kRecreation & Sports$7kEducation$6kEnvironment$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$475k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JB SPEED ART MUSEUM$40,000
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$15,000
SHAKER VILLAGE OF PLEASANT HILL$10,000
OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC$6,000
GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$2,000
HEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM$1,500
EQUINE ADVOCATES INC$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OMEGA HORSE RESCUE: $8k → 9%BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM: $5k → 6%SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $15k → 7%EQUINE ADVOCATES INC: $5k → 11%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $40k → 14%THE NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC: $8k → 10%OLD FRIENDS THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FARMS: $5k → 8%WOODFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1k → 10%SHAKER VILLAGE OF PLEASANT HILL: $25k → 13%CHRYSALIS HOUSE: $1k → 15%JB SPEED ART MUSEUM: $40k → 15%APPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER: $1k → 29%OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $6k → 9%BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM: $5k → 6%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING AND HALL OF FAME: $10k → 7%EQUINE ADVOCATES INC: $1k → 11%KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $20k → 14%THE NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC: $8k → 10%OLD FRIENDS THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FARMS: $1k → 8%WOODFORD HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1k → 10%SHAKER VILLAGE OF PLEASANT HILL: $20k → 13%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 15%JB SPEED ART MUSEUM: $25k → 15%OMEGA HORSE RESCUE: $1k → 9%BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM: $5k → 6%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING AND HALL OF FAME: $3k → 7%EQUINE ADVOCATES INC: $1k → 11%KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15k → 14%THE NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC: $8k → 10%SHAKER VILLAGE OF PLEASANT HILL: $10k → 13%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 15%JB SPEED ART MUSEUM: $15k → 15%BACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM: $3k → 6%KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15k → 14%THE NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC: $8k → 10%SHAKER VILLAGE OF PLEASANT HILL: $10k → 13%JB SPEED ART MUSEUM: $10k → 15%KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15k → 14%THE NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15k → 14%THE NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%SECRETARIAT CENTER: $5k → 15%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15k → 14%THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2k → 10%KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 15%HEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM: $2k → 15%HEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM: $2k → 15%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$417k · 14 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +74% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$417k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+74%

Still filing today

79%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +115%
  • SA
    SPEED ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +224%
  • SA
    SHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • SP
    SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +74%
  • SC
    SECRETARIAT CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +15%
  • THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +561%
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
Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame

The harness racing museum & hall of fame is dedicated to comprehensive, active and authoritative support and promotion of the standardbred racing through documentation and preservation of the history and traditions of this american-born…

Arts & Culture
2
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
3
American Saddle Horse Museum Association Inc

To preserve the traditions and promote the heritage of our beautiful athletic horses, through active engagement of the general public and equine community by expanding interest and appeal in our breed.

Arts & Culture
4
Horse Country Inc

Horse country, inc. is a coordinated equine industry initiative to connect guests to the horse, land, and people of kentucky's signature equine industry through immerserive experiences at unique member locations. horse country, inc.…

Membership Benefit
5
The Jockey Club

The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…

Recreation & Sports
6
Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority Inc

Subject to federal trade commission oversight, the horseracing integrity and safety authority is charged with recommending and implementing uniform safety and integrity rules in thoroughbred racing. continued on schedule o. hisa is…

Community Improvement
7
National Thoroughbred Racing Association Inc

The ntra is a broadly defined membership association that is charged with increasing the popularity, welfare and integrity of thoroughbred racing.

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8
National Reining Horse Association

The corporation is formed to promte and encourage public interest in agricultural and ranching through reining horse shows and programs; to develop standards and performance and judging of reinging horses; to encourage the development and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Foundation Inc

Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…

Animals
10
American Paint Horse Association

The mission of the american paint horse association is to collect, record and preserve the pedigrees of american paint horses, and to stimulate and regulate all matters pertaining to the promotion, history, breeding and exhibition of this…

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11
Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc

The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.

Animals
12
Kentucky Derby Museum Corporation

To engage,educate, and excite everyone about the extraordinary experience that is the kentucky derby!

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chrysalis House Inc. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $135,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSSPEED ART MUSEUM: $90,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUMSHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureSHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INCSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · AnimalsGRAYSON-JO…OMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $14,500 · AnimalsOMEGA HORS…EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $7,000 · AnimalsEQUINE ADV…Woodford Humane Society Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsWoodford H…+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $6,250 · OtherOLD FRIENDS THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FARMS: $6,000 · OtherTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $1,500 · OtherBACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM OF NEW YORK INC: $17,500 · EmploymentSECRETARIAT CENTER INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$322,000Animals$42,500Health$31,000Other$23,750Employment$17,500Recreation & Sports$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $135,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBACKSTRETCH EMPLOYEE SERVICE TEAM OF NEW YORK INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOMEGA HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $14,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSECRETARIAT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWoodford Humane Society Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Blue Grass Community …The Riggio FoundationW L Lyons Brown Found…The Mt Brilliant Fami…The Community Foundat…Jdsm Family Foundatio…Alex G Campbell Jr Fo…Mary K Oxley Foundati…The Brian Ratner Foun…Hilary Boone Foundati…Thoroughbred Charitie…The Charles and Mary …
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Riggio Foundation · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Jdsm Family Foundation Inc · Alex G Campbell Jr Foundation Inc · Mary K Oxley Foundation · The Brian Ratner Foundation · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation

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 Tracy Farmer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tracy Farmer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tracy Farmer Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Tracy Farmer Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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-PF 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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