· Private foundation
B J Killian Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $433k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OWENSBORO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $55,000 |
| APOLLO HIGH SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER | $35,000 |
| KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (STLOUIS) | $30,000 |
| HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC | $25,000 |
| GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| WKU STUDENT LIFE FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| KET | $20,000 |
| CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| Owensboro Family YMCA | $20,000 |
| CASA OF OHIO VALLEY INC | $20,000 |
| RIVERPARK CENTER | $20,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $20,000 |
| J H NEBLETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 8% of B J Killian Foundation’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, 94% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less 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.
33 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +33%- WSWKU Student Life Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +16%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- TKTEAM KENTUCKY INCone grant, 2022 · $30k
- OROWENSBORO RIVERPARK CENTERone grant, 2024 · $20k
- PSPITINO SHELTER SOUP KITCHENone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
To provide basic dental services to low income individuals and families that either have no form of dental insurance or rely upon medicaid.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Assist victims of domestic violence & prevention
The mission of ohio valley goodwill industries rehabilitation center, inc. is to provide vocational rehabilitation, training, and employment services to individuals with either disabilities or social and economic barriers to full employment
To inspire partnerships and provide services that empower people, support communities and change lives.
Owensboro health, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the communities we serve.
Meeting the spiritual and physical needs of women facing crises concerning pregnancies.
Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Owensboro Area Shelter Information and Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Independence Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 42 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 KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WKU Student Life Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Family Y of Owensboro-Daviess Co ↗
- Who funds CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERPARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOULWARE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORO AREA SHELTER INFORMATION AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HL NEBLETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL PITINO SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOODFELLOWS CLUB OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds Independence Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO 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: Owensboro Health Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di · Public Life Foundation of Owensboro · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Impact 100 - Owensboro Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Michael E Horn Family Foundation Inc Ima · Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 4168
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 B J Killian Foundation 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.