· Private foundation
Alex Boone Charitable Trust Dated 12/01/98
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of ALEX BOONE CHARITABLE TRUST DATED 12/01/98’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UK SANDERS BROWN CENTER AGING | $25,000 |
| THE MARKEY CANCER CENTER | $23,000 |
| KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $20,000 |
| EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC | $15,000 |
| CHRYSALIS HOUSE | $11,500 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF LEX-FAYETTE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BLUE WINGS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| HENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP | $10,000 |
| RICHMOND ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LSLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +34%
- EEEQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC5× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +41%
- HCHENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP6× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +102%
Funded once
Vanderbilt Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +74%- TBTOWN BRANCH PARK INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -34%
- TCTHOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Horse country, inc. is a coordinated equine industry initiative to connect guests to the horse, land, and people of kentucky's signature equine industry through immerserive experiences at unique member locations. horse country, inc.…
Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…
To advertise, foster and promote the thoroughbred horse industry in the commonwealth of kentucky
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To advertise, foster and promote the thoroughbred horse industry in the commonwealth of kentucky
To promote the development of tennis as a means of healthful recreation and physical fitness in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The organization is committed to the advancement of research to enhance the safety and health of the horse.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
The united states equestrian federation's mission is to provide access to and increase participation in equestrian sports at all levels by ensuring fairness, safety, and enjoyment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fayette Alliance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chrysalis House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA LTD ↗
- Who funds EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHALLENGER TENNIS CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HORSE TRIALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TROOPER ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Albert G Clay Family Foundation Robert & Charlotte Clay Co-Ttes · William T Young Foundation Inc · Mary K Oxley Foundation · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Limestone Family Foundation Inc · Misdee Wrigley and James Mather Miller Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alex Boone Charitable Trust Dated 12/01/98 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.