· Private foundation
Acres of Hope
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRYAN STATION MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,181 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ARBOR YOUTH | $635 |
| CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $200 |
| CATHOLIC ACTION CENTER | $190 |
| BLUEGRASS CHRISTIAN CAMP | $190 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $180 |
| URBAN IMPACT | $127 |
| FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION | $117 |
| COMMON GOOD | $100 |
| KERRINGTONS HEARTS INC | $58 |
| Individual grant recipient | $52 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of Acres of Hope’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 68%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LLLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +21%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +18%
- FWFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION2× · 2022–2024 · $717 · revenue +69%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- CCINCY4UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Linking together people, resources, and churches to reach the remote places of the earth that have little to no evangelical witness.
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Guidelight exists for the pursuit of Christ-centered transformation in the lives of those impacted by disability through proclaiming biblical truth and providing needed resources.
Cross to Light is a nondenominational Christian organization providing spiritual education and physical aid to people in need around the world. Since 2005, Cross to Light has helped people cross from darkness to light by hearing the Gospel…
Provide humanitarian aid and christian discipleship.
We are a 12-month residential Christian ministry for men and women ages 18 and up who have drug and alcohol addictions or other life controlling issues. We seek to help men and women overcome those life controlling issues.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Acres of Hope funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acres of Hope. Bigger dots raise more.
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