Horse racing in Kentucky is rich in history, dating back to 1789 when the first race course was laid out in Lexington. However, it was almost 100 years later, in 1875, that Churchill Downs officially opened and began its tradition as "Home of the Kentucky Derby." The Commons, a park-like block near Lexington's Race Street was used by horsemen for racing. By 1789, complaints by "safety minded" citizens led to the formal development of a race meet at The Commons. The men who organized this race meet, including Kentucky Statesman Henry Clay, also formed the Commonwealth's first Jockey Club. The organization later was named the Kentucky Jockey Club in 1809.

The New England Patriots professional football franchise is one of the more popular teams in the NFL, boasting three Super Bowl championship seasons between 2001 and 2004. The team's success on the field has translated into sell-out crowds at the team's Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The franchise was founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots of the American Football League before moving to Foxborough and changing its name in 1971. Robert Kraft purchased the Patriots in 1994 and owns the franchise through his family holding company The Kraft Group.

The Florida Marlins professional baseball franchise joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1993 and boasts two World Series titles. Under the deep-pocketed ownership of former Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga, the Marlins quickly rose to success and won its first championship title in 1997. A second Fall Classic victory followed in 2003, two years after the franchise was sold to Jeff Loria, who formerly owned the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals). The team plays host at Miami's LandShark Stadium.

The Pepsi Center is Rocky Mountain High on entertaining the masses in Denver. The arena serves primarily as the home court for the Denver Nuggets basketball team and as home ice for the Colorado Avalanche professional hockey club. It also hosts more than 200 other sporting contests, concerts, and entertainment events. The Pepsi Center includes such amenities as casual and fine dining restaurants, as well as conference facilities. The arena opened in 1999 with a Celine Dion concert. The $180 million facility is owned by Kroenke Sports Enterprises (KSE), and is located near Denver's LoDo entertainment district.

Consolidated Restaurants operates about a dozen upscale and casual-dining restaurants in the Seattle area, including DC's Grill, The Metropolitan Grill, Steamer's Seafood Cafe, Quincy's Chargrilled Burgers, and Wing Dome Restaurants, and Elliott's Oyster House. Consolidated Restaurants' Royal Argosy is a fine dining dinner ship (operating in partnership with Argosy Cruises) that offers lunch and dinner cruises around Puget Sound. The late David Cohn founded Consolidated Restaurants as Barb Enterprises when he opened his first restaurant in Seattle in 1951.

Wynn Macau is Wynn Resorts' casino destination located in the world's largest gaming market, Macau, a peninsula off the coast of mainland China. The 16-acre resort (the entire peninsula of Macau is only 3.5 sq. mi.) has a 600-room hotel, five restaurants, and a 200,000-sq.ft. casino with 1,200 slot machines and more than 350 table games. It also offers a spa, salon, almost 25,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, and a shopping mall with Prada, Gucci, Dior, and Armani designer stores. The $1.1 billion resort is already planning an expansion, called the Encore at Wynn Macau. Wynn Macau, Limited raised $1.6 billion when it debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2009.

Premier Exhibitions, Inc. develops and tours museum quality exhibitions worldwide. The company creates, designs, markets, and presents educational and entertaining exhibitions; sells apparel, posters, and Titanic-related jewelry; publishes exhibition catalogs; and provides ancillary services, such as audio tours and photographs. The Exhibition, the exhibition that display multiple human anatomy sets, which contain a collection of whole human body specimens, single human organs, and body parts; and Dialog in the Dark that is intended to provide insight and experience to the paradox of learning to see without the use of sight.

Grand Prix Association of Long Beach stages the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, an annual motorsports competition the takes place on the streets of downtown Long Beach, California. The race, first run in 1975, draws about 150,000 spectators, among the highest for open-wheeled racing competitions in the US. The Toyota Grand Prix is typically held in April; the weekend of racing also features a celebrity race and a sports car competition among other events. Grand Prix Association of Long Beach is owned by former Champ Car World Series principles Kevin Kalkoven and Gerald Forsythe through Aquarium Asset Management.

Calgary Flames Limited Partnership owns and operates the Calgary Flames professional hockey franchise, which joined the National Hockey League in 1972 as the Atlanta Flames. Since relocating to Alberta, Canada, the team has earned three trips to the Stanley Cup Finals (its last in 2004) and won its only championship title in 1989. Calgary plays host at Pengrowth Saddledome. Chairman N. Murray Edwards leads an ownership group that includes oil and gas executive Harley Hotchkiss and Canadian Natural Resources chairman Allan Markin.

Gilroy Gardens, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. After selling their Nob Hill Foods supermarkets, the Park was founded by Michael and Claudia Bonfante and is designed to educate guests and to foster a greater appreciation of horticulture. The Park features over forty rides, attractions, educational exhibits and majestic gardens. The goal is to return a percentage of annual revenues back into beautification and parks projects throughout neighboring communities. The Board of Directors is specifically challenged to find public works projects to initiate and/or support those that follow the ideals of preservation, stewardship and ecology for which the theme park stands. At this time the Park is not set up for individual grants.

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