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STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND

STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $546,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES TROTTING ASSOCIATION ($346,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$372k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$546k
Net assets
$254k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 100%
01What it does

What Standardbred Racing Investigative Fund does

Mission

To protect the health, safety, and welfare of horses.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To support investigations into matters concerning the health and welfare of horses in the harness racing industry

    $21,886 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $21,886.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($175k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($31k)2022 Revenue 34 ($60k) Expenses 62 ($90k) Net assets 5 ($1k)2023 Revenue 57 ($100k) Expenses 47 ($68k) Net assets 106 ($33k)2024 Revenue 212 ($372k) Expenses 105 ($151k) Net assets 813 ($254k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (212)Expenses (105)Net assets (813)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 $33k to $254k (+667%).

$31k
$1k
$33k
$254k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,042 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
’21
−$30k
’22
$32k
’23
$221k
’24
20
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100k.

From the IRS filings of STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND’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

STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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

82% 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 STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.

OH
PA

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

’20
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve20.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND: 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 STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND?
STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $546,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES TROTTING ASSOCIATION ($346,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $546,000 in grants to STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND?
UNITED STATES TROTTING ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $346,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STANDARDBRED RACING INVESTIGATIVE FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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