California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS
CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THOROUGHBRED OWNERS OF CALIFORNIA ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $561k
What California Thoroughbred Trainers does
Mission
To foster and promote a healthy economic climate and a higher level of public acceptance of the thoroughbred horse racing industry. To work for the improvement of living and working conditions for the employees of members and to provide retirement benefits if applicable. To represent interests and rights of its members in any matters with any industry related organization. To form and educate its members and other segments of the industry regarding any matter important to the interests of the members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
California Thoroughbred Trainers ("ctt") represents the interests of the thoroughbred horse racing trainers and race track workers who tend to the horses ("backstretch workers"). Ctt administers a pension fund, provides recreational activities, and provides on-premises convenience stores for backstretch workers. Ctt provides educational programs for trainers. Ctt represents the trainers in negotiating contracts and in monitoring legislation affecting the horse racing industry. Ctt also provides services and information to the racing public to promote thoroughbred horse racing.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $2.4M (+80%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Alan Balch
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS?
- CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being THOROUGHBRED OWNERS OF CALIFORNIA ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,000 in grants to CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS?
- THOROUGHBRED OWNERS OF CALIFORNIA is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing