· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $433k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OWENSBORO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $55,000 |
| SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER | $35,000 |
| APOLLO HIGH SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (STLOUIS) | $30,000 |
| KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $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 |
| RIVERPARK CENTER | $20,000 |
| CASA OF OHIO VALLEY INC | $20,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $20,000 |
| OWENSBORO SCIENCE MUSEUM | $15,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of B J Killian Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 92%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +33%- WSWKU Student Life Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +16%
- CHCLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TKTEAM KENTUCKY INCone grant, 2022 · $30k
- OROWENSBORO RIVERPARK CENTERone grant, 2024 · $20k
- SBSt Benedict Shelterone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 42 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.
- Who funds KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WKU Student Life Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB 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 RIVERPARK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORO AREA SHELTER INFORMATION AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOULWARE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HL NEBLETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL PITINO SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODFELLOWS CLUB OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds Independence Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization B J Killian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B J Killian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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