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American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Foundation Inc

The american civil liberties union of kentucky (aclu) is freedom's watchdog, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people by the constitutions of the united states and the commonwealth of kentucky.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Civil Rights$292kHousing & Shelter$117kHuman Services$102kHealth$63kCrime & Legal$48kCommunity Improvement$15kReligion$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $67,382, the rows itemized in this filing. The $73,022 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,640 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$67,382
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$67,382
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LA CASITA CENTER: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
2
Redemption Road Ministries

Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…

Religion
3
Remedies Renewing Lives

To empower individuals to renew their lives.

Health
4
Pavillon International

To provide hope, healing, and lasting recovery to individuals and their families who suffer from alcoholism and other substance use related disorders.

Health
5
Simon House Inc

The organization's mission is to reduce the extent and consequences of homelessness in franklin and surrounding counties. this is accomplished by providing two low-barrier shelters that accommodate homeless men, women, and children.…

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6
Pathways to Housing Dc

Pathways to housing dc prevents and ends homelessness for persons living with serious psychiatric disabilities and other complex health challenges.

Human Services
7
Pathways Inc

Empowering women and children on their path out of homelessness through hospitality, housing, and hope.

Human Services
8
Compass Point Housing

We provide safe, affordable recovery housing for adults in addiction treatment and recovery.

Crime & Legal
9
Kingdom Pathways

Provide housing to the poor, homeless and those in recovery from chemical dependancy. providing housing, 3 meals a day, nursing, mentoring, community service, job skills and job placement.

Human Services
10
Chain Breaker Ministries Inc

Chain breaker ministries, inc. operates a faith-based mens residential center in columbus, indiana for addiction recovery programming.

Health
11
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
12
Colonial House Inc

Colonial house, inc. strives to be proactive in the treatment and recovery of those impacted by the destructive nature of substance use disorders.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Healing Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fairness Campaign Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INC: $292,000 · OtherFAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INCCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $110,726 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCOxford House Inc: $48,250 · OtherOxford House Inc+3 more: $28,750 · Other+3 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES SERVING AK HI ID IN KY AND WA: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $12,500 · HealthSHEPHERD'S H…PATHWAYS INC: $10,000 · HealthPATHWAYS INCLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $24,000 · Human ServicesLA CASITA CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalNEW LEGACY REENTRY CORP: $15,000 · Crime & LegalZEROV INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalROBERT JAMISON MINISTRIES: $5,400 · Religion
Other$479,726Health$72,500Human Services$44,000Crime & Legal$40,000Religion$5,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAIRNESS CAMPAIGN INC: $292,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $110,726 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES SERVING AK HI ID IN KY AND WA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOxford House Inc: $48,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $24,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LEGACY REENTRY CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetKentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetZEROV INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT JAMISON MINISTRIES: $5,400 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
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.

The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Oxford House Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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