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STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC

STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,874,404 to it, the largest being ROBERT MCLEAN FOUNDATION TRUST ($682,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$644k
21/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Standardbred Retirement Foundation Inc does

Mission

Our heartfelt mission is to rescue horses from the threat of slaughter, secure loving homes with the distinctive commitment to lifelong follow up and guardianship. We tirelessly promote a universal understanding that horses require a lifetime commitment of enduring care. Through the provision of resources, education and outreach to communities, individuals and other programs we meet their needs and continue our unwavering promise for a better world for horses and humans.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The standardbred retirement foundation rescues horses from shipping for slaughter, and in need of homes. It provides rehabilitation such as medical; dental; proper refeeding; veterinary attention; farrier, care, and rest. The objective is homing to carefully screened adopters, however, many horses remain under srfs care and expense for life. Annually srf helps 500 -800 new horses in need and follows up via veterinary reports from adopters semi-annually for life. Approximately 400-500 homes are secured annually, and an average of 500 horses remain under srf's care at any one time.

    $2,368,421 spent$1,790,262 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,368,421.

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 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 103 ($2.0M) Expenses 171 ($2.9M) Net assets 36 ($506k)2019 Revenue 83 ($1.6M) Expenses 103 ($1.7M) Net assets 27 ($382k)2020 Revenue 180 ($3.5M) Expenses 113 ($1.9M) Net assets 140 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 114 ($2.2M) Expenses 133 ($2.2M) Net assets 137 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 85 ($1.6M) Expenses 156 ($2.6M) Net assets 67 ($935k)2023 Revenue 124 ($2.4M) Expenses 152 ($2.6M) Net assets 54 ($763k)2024 Revenue 104 ($2.0M) Expenses 126 ($2.1M) Net assets 46 ($644k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (126)Net assets (46)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 2019 to 2020, from $517k to $2.0M (+293%).

$1.4M
$530k
$517k
$2.0M
$2.0M
$991k
$913k
$797k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$251k
’17
−$894k
’18
−$124k
’19
$1.6M
’20
−$35k
’21
−$987k
’22
−$172k
’23
−$119k
’24
1.2
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.

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Listed66543322
Joined·+1+0+1+0+0··
No longer listed·11210··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $32k → $352k.

8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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

STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

36%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 45% · 2019 59% · 2020 66% · 2021 33% · 2022 37% · 2023 38% — 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.

How long its funders stay

63% of STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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

STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 11 states in all.

NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
KY
VA
DE
NC
DC
TX

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

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’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k 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

STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · below the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 3%Fundraising 7%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC?
STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,874,404 to it, the largest being ROBERT MCLEAN FOUNDATION TRUST ($682,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,874,404 in grants to STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC?
ROBERT MCLEAN FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $682,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 34 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