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USA Equestrian Trust Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Recreation & Sports$3.4MAnimals$157kFood & Nutrition$150kYouth Development$94kHealth$75kEducation$58kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRESSAGE4KIDS$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT$50,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%OMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%PLANTATION FIELD EQUESTRIAN EVENTS: $27k → 6%SUNRISE VAULTERS (RECOGNIZED MEMBER OF EQUESTRIAN VAULTING USA): $5k → 10%SACRAMENTO AREA HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%METROPOLITAN EQUESTRIAN TEAM: $5k → 17%AMERICAN YOUTH HORSE COUNCIL: $5k → 19%SECOND WIND THOROUGHBRED PROJECT: $5k → 28%WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%UNITED STATES PARA-EQUESTRIAN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%HORSES N HEROES OF MARION COUNTY: $10k → 16%DETROIT HORSE POWER: $5k → 21%WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%SIMMONS' STABLE PRESERVATION FUND: $5k → 18%REGION 10 ARABIAN HORSE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%EQUUS FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%DRESSAGE4KIDS: $75k → 12%HOPE AND HEALING AT HILLENGLADE: $25k → 14%THE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY: $11k → 9%PEAK PENTATHLON: $6k → 12%UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATIONTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%LEXINGTON MOUNTED UNIT: $5k → 12%RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT: $8k → 6%TROT SEARCH AND RESCUE MOUNTED TEAM: $5k → 8%FAIR HILL INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%OLDFIELDS SCHOOL: $5k → 11%ASBURY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%RACING SURFACES TESTING LABORATORY: $25k → 15%UNITED STATES SADDLE SEAT ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%SACRAMENTO AREA HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%AMERICAN HORSE COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DRESSAGE4KIDS INC: $4k → 12%UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATIONWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%SACRAMENTO AREA HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%AMERICAN HORSE COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $12k → 15%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%AMERICAN HORSE COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY KENTUCKY HORSE PARK COMMISSION: $3.2M → 15%UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION: $40k → 15%AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE ASSN: $10k → 15%AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE & BREEDERS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF EQUINE PRACTITIONERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%AMERICAN MORGAN HORSE EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$340k · 11 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
51

Total granted

$340k
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+5%

Still filing today

73%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • D4
    DRESSAGE 4 KIDS INC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +149%
  • GC
    GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +77%
  • AS
    AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • CO
    COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY KENTUCKY HORSE PARK COMMISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $3.2M
  • US
    UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +11%
  • PF
    PLANTATION FIELD EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +4%

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.

1
International Equine Information Inc
Philanthropy
2
World Ranch Horse Association
Animals
3
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
4
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
5
Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses
Animals
6
Stormwalker Ranch Equine
Human Services
7
Double H Equine Foundation & Sanct
Animals
8
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
9
National Collegiate Equestrian Association

The Association is organized to promote the interests and general welfare of all components of the equestrian sport for student athletes and prospective student athletes and to encourage the development of community support for equestrian…

Recreation & Sports
10
Wisconsin Horse Alliance
—
11
Orchardview Stables
—
12
Horse Hugs
—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fair Hill International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southern Illinois University Alumni Association. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr18%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr18%16%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
12%
2,431/20,273

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

40 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. 40 of the 63 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY KENTUCKY HORSE PARK COMMISSION — $3,200,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY KENTUCKY HORSE PARK COMMISSIONUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT — $150,000 · Other+28 more — $214,348 · Other+28 moreUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION INC — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsRACING SURFACES TESTING LABORATORY — $25,423 · Recreation & SportsSACRAMENTO AREA HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsHORSES N HEROES OF MARION COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWashington International Horse Show — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Saddle Seat Association Inc — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMETROPOLITAN EQUESTRIAN TEAM INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Para Equestrian Association — $4,600 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $2,225 · Recreation & SportsGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA EQUINE ASSISTANCE AND EVACUATION TEAM — $20,000 · AnimalsEQUUS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · AnimalsRETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD — $7,500 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · AnimalsSecond Wind Thoroughbred Project — $4,500 · Animals+3 more — $5,820 · AnimalsDRESSAGE 4 KIDS INC — $79,000 · Youth DevelopmentDETROIT HORSE POWER — $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,200 · Youth DevelopmentWILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationASBURY COLLEGE — $7,970 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · EducationOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC — $4,600 · EducationAmerican Horse Council Foundation Inc — $23,000 · HealthPrancing Horse Inc — $3,800 · HealthMEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT GULFPORT FOUNDATION INC — $3,213 · HealthTHE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,500 · Food & NutritionSIMMONS STABLE PRESERVATION FUND INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,564,348Recreation & Sports$124,748Animals$95,320Youth Development$85,200Education$37,570Health$30,013Food & Nutrition$10,500Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDRESSAGE 4 KIDS INC — $79,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANTATION FIELD EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC — $27,250 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetRACING SURFACES TESTING LABORATORY — $25,423 over 1y, 10% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Horse Council Foundation Inc — $23,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetWILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE AND BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA EQUINE ASSISTANCE AND EVACUATION TEAM — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetTHE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHORSES N HEROES OF MARION COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFAIR HILL INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE — $7,970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUUS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWashington International Horse Show — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES HUNTER JUMPER ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT HORSE POWER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMMONS STABLE PRESERVATION FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN EQUESTRIAN TEAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOMAHA EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGION 10 ARABIAN HORSE ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUnited States Para Equestrian Association — $4,600 over 1y, 29% of budgetOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC — $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN MORGAN HORSE EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST — $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPrancing Horse Inc — $3,800 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT GULFPORT FOUNDATION INC — $3,213 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SOUTHLANDS FOUNDATION — $2,592 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENTUCKY HORSE COUNCIL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHPF-RESCUE-REHAB-REHOME — $2,120 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHARNESS HORSE YOUTH FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND CHANCE THOROUGHBREDS INC — $1,200 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
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.

United States Equestr…Dun FoundationThe American Society …The Community Foundat…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Network for Good
United States Equestrian Federation IncKY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Equestrian Federation Inc · Dun Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good

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 USA Equestrian Trust 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 · 80%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    8get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to USA Equestrian Trust Inc?

    Find your warmest path to USA Equestrian Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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