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OLD FRIENDS INC

OLD FRIENDS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,436,783 to it, the largest being THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE ($1,300,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.2M
Funders on record
82
Grants received
$4.4M
Net assets
$4.5M
43/82 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Old Friends Inc does

Mission

To care for and protect retired thouroughbreds.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Raise awareness of the treatment of retired race horses and care for and honor the race horses. We keep and care for retired race horses on our farm.

    $3,192,981 spent$5,112,744 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,192,981.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($874k)2018 Revenue 107 ($2.1M) Expenses 116 ($2.0M) Net assets 111 ($969k)2019 Revenue 128 ($2.5M) Expenses 109 ($1.8M) Net assets 182 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 108 ($2.1M) Expenses 118 ($2.0M) Net assets 191 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 154 ($3.0M) Expenses 135 ($2.3M) Net assets 269 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 146 ($2.8M) Expenses 151 ($2.6M) Net assets 289 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 189 ($3.6M) Expenses 191 ($3.2M) Net assets 335 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 205 ($4.0M) Expenses 214 ($3.6M) Net assets 372 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 267 ($5.2M) Expenses 228 ($3.9M) Net assets 519 ($4.5M)
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Revenue (267)Expenses (228)Net assets (519)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.4M to $9.0M (+67%).

$4.7M
$4.7M
$5.0M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$5.1M
$5.4M
$9.0M
$9.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

85% of OLD FRIENDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$232k
’17
$94k
’18
$626k
’19
$77k
’20
$678k
’21
$253k
’22
$401k
’23
$324k
’24
$1.3M
’25
3.8
months of
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

John Nicholson

President & CEO

Board chair

Cynthia Grisolia

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171718171717151618
Joined·+0+2+2+0+0+2+1+5
No longer listed·01300403
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $375k → $1.2M.

17 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of OLD FRIENDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 funders by total. 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

OLD FRIENDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

69% 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 OLD FRIENDS INC.

29%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 50% · 2019 61% · 2020 44% · 2021 24% · 2022 30% · 2023 43% — 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.

How long its funders stay

45% of OLD FRIENDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

72% of OLD FRIENDS INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OLD FRIENDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · above the median
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like OLD FRIENDS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 17%Fundraising 1%

Governance

18
board members
83%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds OLD FRIENDS INC?
OLD FRIENDS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,436,783 to it, the largest being THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE ($1,300,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OLD FRIENDS INC have?
IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $4,436,783 in grants to OLD FRIENDS INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OLD FRIENDS INC?
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $1,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OLD FRIENDS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 82 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing