Kentucky · Nonprofit
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE (Kentucky) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,228,159 to it, the largest being The Jockey Club ($7,296,725). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance does
Mission
Thoroughbred aftercare alliance (taa) is an organization designed to serve as both the accrediting body for aftercare organizations that care for thoroughbred horses following the conclusion of their careers as well as a fundraising body to support these approved organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy 2025, taa granted accreditation to 87 organizations following a thorough and rigorous process whereby each organization agreed to maintain a set code of standards reviewed and approved by the american humane association and the american association of equine practitioners. Each organization was subject to an in depth application and received onsite visits to each organization caring for their horses. In fy 2025 87 of these approved organizations received grants totaling $4,135,694, and these grants may be used only for activities, materials, supplies, and services directly related to the care of the organization's horses.
$4,645,357 spentof which $4,135,694 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,645,357.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8.5M to $10M (+19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $115k → $2.2M.
10 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 31% · 2019 41% · 2020 85% · 2021 74% · 2022 67% · 2023 67% — 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 THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.
Against its field
THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE?
- THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE (Kentucky) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,228,159 to it, the largest being The Jockey Club ($7,296,725). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $11,228,159 in grants to THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE?
- The Jockey Club is the largest funder on record, with $7,296,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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