· Public charity
Appalshop Inc
APPALSHOP INC.
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61% of Appalshop Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Appalshop Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $80k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCERNED LETCHER COUNTIANS LLC | $35,440 |
| COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP | $15,000 |
| SANDLICK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| CARCASSONNE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HEMPHILL COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 29%, against an area that typically sits at 27%. 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
How this is measured
5 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. 5 of the 6 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Appalshop Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appalshop Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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