· Public charity
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
To improve health and promote well-being of all people in central appalachia in partnership with our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $687,979 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,113,867 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $425,888 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $501k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JMI SPORTS KENTUCKY LLC | $232,691 |
| LEXINGTON SPORTING CLUB | $139,750 |
| SHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC | $78,958 |
| HOPE IN THE HILLS INC | $50,000 |
| KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $32,950 |
| PRO CAMPS INC | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC | $20,000 |
| SAYRE SCHOOL INC | $20,000 |
| CITY OF HINTON SANITARY BOARD | $18,000 |
| COWEN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC | $15,000 |
| IHEART MEDIA | $13,000 |
| PERRY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,950 |
| BELFRY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC FACILITIES BOOSTER INC | $9,050 |
| LETCHER COUNTY CENTRAL | $6,000 |
| FAYETTE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC | $5,800 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Appalachian Regional Healthcare’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 86% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k 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
- SOSHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $119k · revenue +136%
- KCKentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $78k · revenue +15%
- CCCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC5× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +292%
Funded once
- BMBLOC MKTGone grant, 2019 · $61k
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDone grant, 2022 · $31k
- FDFIVCO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC (FKA FIVCO OFFICES INC)one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.
Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of kentucky.
Our mission is to promote and support the development of strong businesses and a vibrant economy in the northern kentucky region, through leadership and advocacy, resulting in a better quality of life for all.
To facilitate the economic growth and development of the southern kentucky region.
Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky
To actively search for new companies and industries to locate in the mayfield, ky and graves county, ky area for economic development.
Conservation education and promotion
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
Embracing our past, empowering our people, and unlocking our future by developing a tourism industry cluster, and revitalizing our communities in the coalfields of eastern kentucky
To help create legacies to enrich the lives of all citizens of the commonwealth of kentucky, continue providing resources for youth development, and communicate the traditions and technology of kentucky agriculture.we also aim to continue…
The Southern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce primary mission is to keep their members informed of current events and law changes that effect their businesses. They also support an educational effort to high school students to make them better…
The kentucky main street association empowers communities by providing training, education, and resources that strengthen local main street programs, directors, and the public. through a focus on historic preservation, restoration, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Performing Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 19. 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 11% 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 49 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 SHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC ↗
- Who funds PERRY COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ONE HARLAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE EAST KENTUCKY CORPORATION ONE EAST KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IN THE HILLS INCORPORATED HEALING APPALACHIA ↗
- Who funds PIKE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds COACHES FOR THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mountain Performing Arts INC ↗
- Who funds JENNY WILEY DRAMA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY-RALEIGH COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GOLD COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES 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: Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Arh Foundation for Healthier Communities Inc · Berea College · Save The Children Federation Inc · Pikeville Medical Center Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Appalachian Regional Healthcare 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.