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THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC

THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being THE MCREYNOLDS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$45k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$500
Net assets
$269k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Gerry Dilger Equine Scholarship Foundation Inc does

Mission

Activities include awarding scholarships to students to help them begin a career in the thoroughbred industry. Several scholarships are awarded annually. They are conducted by the board of directors and work in conjunction with different entities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarship awards

    $52,730 spent
    75% of program spending
  2. Golf tournament fundraising

    $17,186 spent$39,279 earned by the program
    25% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $69,916.

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 ($23k) Expenses 100 ($24k) Net assets 100 ($217k)2022 Revenue 581 ($136k) Expenses 224 ($55k) Net assets 137 ($298k)2023 Revenue 134 ($31k) Expenses 283 ($69k) Net assets 120 ($260k)2024 Revenue 478 ($112k) Expenses 313 ($77k) Net assets 136 ($296k)2025 Revenue 193 ($45k) Expenses 293 ($72k) Net assets 124 ($269k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (193)Expenses (293)Net assets (124)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 2021 to 2022, from $217k to $298k (+37%).

$217k
$298k
$260k
$296k
$269k
20212022202320242025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

2% of THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’21
$81k
’22
−$38k
’23
$35k
’24
−$27k
’25
35
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed33333
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 1 state in all.

TN

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

THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−59% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve35.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being THE MCREYNOLDS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
THE MCREYNOLDS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE GERRY DILGER EQUINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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