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SECOND STRIDE INC

SECOND STRIDE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,254,052 to it, the largest being THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE ($992,700). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$858k
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$104k
18/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Second Stride Inc does

Mission

We provide professional rehabilitation, retraining, and placement of retired thoroughbred racehorses with qualified adopters. We specialize in transitioning thoroughbreds with the proper care and quality training they need to succeed in something new.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Since our founding in 2005, Second Stride Inc has placed over 2,000 retired thoroughbred racehorses in need with qualified adopters throughout the united states. In 2025, 130 horses were transitioned into training for a new job and adopted into new, qualified homes.

    $727,176 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $727,176.

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 ($237k) Expenses 100 ($255k) Net assets 100 ($182k)2018 Revenue 143 ($341k) Expenses 117 ($299k) Net assets 124 ($225k)2019 Revenue 134 ($319k) Expenses 119 ($303k) Net assets 132 ($241k)2020 Revenue 137 ($324k) Expenses 125 ($319k) Net assets 136 ($247k)2021 Revenue 211 ($501k) Expenses 159 ($406k) Net assets 187 ($341k)2022 Revenue 260 ($617k) Expenses 196 ($500k) Net assets 244 ($445k)2023 Revenue 296 ($703k) Expenses 308 ($784k) Net assets 200 ($364k)2024 Revenue 310 ($736k) Expenses 397 ($1.0M) Net assets 49 ($89k)2025 Revenue 361 ($858k) Expenses 333 ($848k) Net assets 57 ($104k)
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Revenue (361)Expenses (333)Net assets (57)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 $365k to $142k (−61%).

$182k
$225k
$243k
$247k
$341k
$450k
$365k
$142k
$154k
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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

80% of SECOND STRIDE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’17
$42k
’18
$16k
’19
$6k
’20
$95k
’21
$117k
’22
−$81k
’23
−$276k
’24
$10k
’25
2.0
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.

Board chair

Laura Forbes Esq Cpa

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed439884888
Joined·+0+6+4+0+0+4+0+1
No longer listed·10504001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $105k → $440k.

8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SECOND STRIDE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

SECOND STRIDE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 SECOND STRIDE INC.

44%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 68% · 2019 65% · 2020 55% · 2021 57% · 2022 37% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.

“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

67% of SECOND STRIDE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

78% of SECOND STRIDE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

ME
IL
NY
IN
PA
KY
DE
SC
TX
FL

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. $732k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

SECOND STRIDE INC has grown faster than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SECOND STRIDE INC

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In Kentucky

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 11%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds SECOND STRIDE INC?
SECOND STRIDE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,254,052 to it, the largest being THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE ($992,700). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SECOND STRIDE INC have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,254,052 in grants to SECOND STRIDE INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SECOND STRIDE INC?
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $992,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SECOND STRIDE 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 33 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