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Amp Foundation

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.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Employment$1.0MHuman Services$130kHealth$110kFood & Nutrition$80kCrime & Legal$60kEducation$26kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$606k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE POINT ARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY$60,000
FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY$60,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL AT ST ANTHONY CHURCH$20,000
MASTER PROVISIONS$20,000
LA SOUPE INC$20,000
ROSE GARDEN CENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING$20,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE POINT ARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $60k → 11%THE POINT ARC: $10k → 11%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$1.2M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FC
    FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +21%
  • TP
    THE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY
    2× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +240%
  • RS
    RIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • DC
    DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +6%
  • CO
    CASA OF THE NORTHERN BLUEGRASS REGION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +19%
  • MR
    MARY ROSE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +33%
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.

04Its 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
Day Spring Inc

Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…

Human Services
2
Christian Residential Opportunities & Social Services Inc

Group Homes

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3
Salem Christian Homes Inc

Board, care and training of physically and mentally handicapped adults.

Human Services
4
Christian Healthcare Centers Inc

Christian Healthcare Centers provides affordable, quality and comprehensive healthcare services to the body of Christ and the community.

Health
5
Mur-Ci Homes Inc

To improve the quality of life for individuals with severe/profound disabilities by assisting them through high-quality 24 hour, 7 days a week continuous care.

Human Services
6
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…

Health
7
Food & Friends Inc

To improve the lives and health of people with hiv/aids, cancer, and other serious illnesses by preparing and delivering (free of charge) specialized meals and groceries, providing nutritional counseling, and reducing social isolation.

Health
8
St Joseph Care Center

To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.

Health
9
The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc

The Cathedral Soup Kitchen, Inc.'s mission is to help people out of food insecurity and champion their pursuit of stability and prosperity. Our vision is hope, success, and abundance for people in need in Camden. The organization serves a…

Human Services
10
Sheffield Care Center Inc

At the sheffield care center our mission, through dedicated teamwork, is to provide all who enter our doors with a clean, comfortable, home-like atmosphere where honesty, dignity, respect and genuine compassion for one another prevails.

Human Services
11
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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12
Lifewell

Lifewell aims to provide hope and recovery through our person-centered residential, outpatient, housing and community living programs. we provide integrated healthcare services to low-income adults with behavioral and physical illness and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Possibilities; the most unlike its peers is South Texas Coaches Association. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MY POSSIBILITIES: $1,038,052 · OtherMY POSSIBILITIESDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $60,000 · Other+8 more: $80,000 · Other+8 moreFAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC: $80,000 · HealthROSE GARDEN CENTER FOR HOPE AND HEALING: $20,000 · HealthTHE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $70,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF THE NORTHERN BLUEGRASS REGION INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalMARY ROSE MISSION: $20,000 · ReligionACTION MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · ReligionRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationST TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,500 · EducationLA SOUPE INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,178,052Health$100,000Human Services$70,000Crime & Legal$60,000Religion$40,000Education$21,500Food & Nutrition$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $1,038,052 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetFAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCASA OF THE NORTHERN BLUEGRASS REGION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMARY ROSE MISSION: $20,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetRIVERVIEW SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACTION MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHorizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASTER PROVISIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROSE GARDEN CENTER FOR HOPE AND HEALING: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENTLY FOREVER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

George and Mary Jo Bu…The R C Durr Foundati…Honorable Order of Ke…Johnson Charitable Gi…The Butler FoundationThe Fischer Family Fo…Horizon Community Fun…Duke Energy FoundationChas and Ruth Seligma…St Elizabeth Medical …John a Schroth Family…Baird Foundation Inc
George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J BudigKY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Butler Foundation · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Duke Energy Foundation · Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Baird Foundation Inc

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 Amp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • Living Independently Forever Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Riverview School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Amp Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Amp Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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