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United Professional Horsemen's Association Foundation Inc

To educate the public in general horsemanship and matters related to the welfare of horses by any means conducive to that end; to educate and train individuals in the art of horsemanship; to encourage and promote horse shows and stimulate interest in and awareness of the general public in horse shows; to encourage, promote, and advance…

$254k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$971kHealth$493kRecreation & Sports$129kFood & Nutrition$103kEducation$34kScience & Tech$15kReligion$6k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $187,221, the rows itemized in this filing. The $254,145 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,924 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $171k
$68,717
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$101,814
UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC$68,717
SADDLEBRED RESCUE$10,752
BLANCHES BLESSINGS$5,938
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION: $103k → 15%BLANCHES BLESSINGS: $6k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $120k → 17%SADDLEBRED RESCUE: $11k → 7%HORSESENSING: $9k → 9%UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $69k → 10%UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $323k → 15%MISFIT TOYS RESCUE DIVISION INC: $5k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $102k → 17%HORSESENSING: $8k → 9%UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $61k → 10%UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION: $180k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $93k → 17%UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION: $106k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $85k → 17%UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $105k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $39k → 17%UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $59k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $38k → 17%AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE ASSOCIATION: $42k → 15%AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%UNITED STATES SADDLE SEAT ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 4 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+125%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $477k · revenue +125%
  • AS
    AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $52k · revenue +119%
  • HI
    HORSESENSING INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +319%

Funded once

  • UP
    UNITED PROFESSIONAL HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION CHAPTER 14 INC
    one grant, 2019 · $119k
  • AR
    AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $103k · revenue -47%
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue +23%
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
National Horse Show Association of America Ltd

The national horse show association of america, ltd. was founded in 1883 and reorganized in 1972 as a nonprofit corporation. the association was organized to advance equestrian sports in the united states.

Recreation & Sports
2
World Ranch Horse Association
Animals
3
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
4
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
5
United States Hunter Jumper Association Inc

The mission of the ushja is to unify and represent the hunter and jumper disciplines of equestrian sport through education, recognition and sport programs.

Recreation & Sports
6
Virginia Horse Shows Association Inc

The vhsa is an association of show and individual members cooperating to promote the sport and to improve the breeding of horses in the commonwealth of virginia.

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7
Arabian Horse Association

To aid and encourage the breeding, exhibiting, use and perpetuation of the arabian horse as well as the half-arabian and anglo-arabian horses.

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8
United States Sports Horse Breeders Association

To support the efforts of u.s. sport horse breeders through education, recognition and outreach.

Animals
9
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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10
American Saddlebred Association of Arizona Inc

The organization accomplishes its goals primarily through the horse shows which are run every year. the horse shows are a means of educting the public with respect to safe and proper horsemanship as well as encouraging safe equestrian…

Animals
11
United States Equestrian Federation Inc

The united states equestrian federation's mission is to provide access to and increase participation in equestrian sports at all levels by ensuring fairness, safety, and enjoyment.

Recreation & Sports
12
United Professional Horsemen's Association Foundation Inc

To educate the public in general horsemanship and matters related to the welfare of horses by any means conducive to that end; to educate and train individuals in the art of horsemanship; to encourage and promote horse shows and stimulate…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Saddlebred Horse and Breeders Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $902,490 · OtherUPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC+3 more: $25,938 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $476,536 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOS…+1 more: $16,120 · HealthUNITED PROFESSIONAL HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION CHAPTER 14 INC: $118,684 · AnimalsUNITED PROF…AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $52,405 · AnimalsAMERICAN SA…Saddlebred Rescue Inc: $10,752 · AnimalsSaddlebred …AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC: $103,278 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Saddle Seat Association Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $33,500 · Education
Other$928,428Health$492,656Animals$181,841Recreation & Sports$113,278Education$33,500

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 budgetUPHA MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $902,490 over 7y, 40% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $476,536 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC: $103,278 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $52,405 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORSESENSING INC: $16,120 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSaddlebred Rescue Inc: $10,752 over 1y, 1.8% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 United Professional Horsemen's Association Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Professional Horsemen's Association Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to United Professional Horsemen's Association 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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