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Baptist Healthcare System Inc

The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship, excellence, compassion & joy.

$213M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$204M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$675MEducation$3.3MCommunity Improvement$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.2MArts & Culture$509kReligion$258kHuman Services$241kPhilanthropy$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 44 grants below total $205,804,789 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $212,926,884 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,122,095 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $542k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $279k
  • $250k+3 grants · $205M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Baptist Health Medical Group Inc$204,164,004
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Inc$450,000
Louisville Healthcare CEO Council$306,820
American Cancer Society$112,650
American Heart Association$86,000
Knox Regional Development Alliance Inc$80,000
One Southern Indiana$35,050
Hildegard House$30,000
Refuge Clinic$30,000
Kosair Charities$30,000
Lincoln Heritage Council Boy Scouts of America$26,000
Sprocket Inc$25,000
Leadership Kentucky Foundation$25,000
Lexington Strides Ahead Foundation$25,000
Hope Center Inc$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $40k → 15%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $15k → 15%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $11k → 15%Bluegrass Care Navigators (fka Hospice of the Bluegrass): $5k → 15%Bluegrass Care Navigators: $5k → 15%Childrens Charity Fund of the Bluegrass: $88k → 15%United Way of Western Kentucky: $12k → 15%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $6k → 15%United Way of Western Kentucky: $6k → 15%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $5k → 15%Childrens Charity Fund of the Bluegrass: $20k → 15%Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County: $15k → 15%American Red Cross: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
IN
CA
KY
VA
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$681M · 74 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
35

Total granted

$681M
$892k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+19%

Still filing today

91%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • BH
    Baptist Health Medical Group Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $670M · revenue +52%
  • IT
    IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +208%
  • BH
    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville
    2× · 2023–2024 · $800k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • BH
    Baptist Health Foundation Hardingraduated
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k · revenue +28%
  • TK
    Team Kentucky COVID-19 Memorial Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • TC
    The Conference Board Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

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.

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2
Kentucky Blood Center Inc

At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…

Health
3
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc

Support for Markey Cancer Center Hospital building expansion and research projects.

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4
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
5
Kentucky Health Center Network Inc

Sustains kentucky health community centers and their capacity to provide quality patient services, to institute best practices, and to pursue continuous improvement.

Health
6
Kentucky Bankers Association

To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…

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7
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
8
Civiclex Incorporated

Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.

Arts & Culture
9
Kentucky Association of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives Inc

To engage in the promotion of social welfare by developing and advocating for legislation, regulations, government programs and other policies that further the interests of aprns who are licensed to practice in kentucky, and to provide…

Community Improvement
10
Kentucky Association for Economic Development Inc

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.

Community Improvement
11
Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce Inc

Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.

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12
Kentucky Medical Association

The kentucky medical association provides physician advocacy through governmental interaction, legal intervention, and public education, as well as providing physician education through periodic workshops/seminars, and an annual convention…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Hospital SystemsRegional Economic Developme…Thoroughbred Horse IndustryEarly Childhood Care and Ed…Louisville Civic Leadership…Disability & Senior ServicesPrivate Membership ClubsAffordable Housing Developm…Health Sector Advocacy & Pr…Youth Arts & Cultural Educa…Youth and Family Support Ce…Historic Preservation & Lan…Youth Development and Caree…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr16%15%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr20%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr16%99%10–20yr15%0%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr20%1%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/113
the rest of the field
13%
2,020/15,508

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.

04the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 119 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/104
Grantees still filing
68/104
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Baptist Health Medical Group Inc — $669,837,514 · HealthBaptist Health Medical Group Inc+24 more — $3,312,690 · HealthIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2,533,000 · EducationPADUCAH JUNIOR COLLEGE INC — $350,400 · EducationKNOX REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE — $140,000 · Education+11 more — $365,210 · EducationLOUISVILLE SOUTH FC INCORPORATED — $1,010,750 · OtherBaptist Health Foundation Hardin — $400,345 · OtherFLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $253,793 · OtherKENTUCKY BAPTIST CONVENTION — $250,130 · OtherGPEDC INC — $200,000 · OtherPADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $120,591 · OtherMCCRACKEN COUNTY FOOTBALL BOOSTERS INC — $121,620 · Other+49 more — $1,233,858 · OtherONE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC — $195,115 · Community ImprovementLEXINGTON STRIDES AHEAD FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementSHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC — $76,500 · Community ImprovementThe Conference Board Inc — $50,000 · Community ImprovementPADUCAH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $49,605 · Community ImprovementCitizens of Louisville Organized and United Together Inc — $36,000 · Community ImprovementKentucky Chamber Foundation Inc — $31,498 · Community Improvement+4 more — $34,494 · Community ImprovementTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $586,706 · Housing & ShelterHildegard House Incorporated — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterLUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC — $270,920 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $16,000 · Arts & CultureROARING BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $107,500 · Human Servicesthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc — $75,890 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $26,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $17,650 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,250 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY — $15,000 · Human ServicesHospice of the Bluegrass Inc — $10,023 · Human Services
Health$673,150,204Education$3,388,610Other$3,591,087Community Improvement$623,212Housing & Shelter$616,706Arts & Culture$326,920Human Services$267,813

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBaptist Health Medical Group Inc — $669,837,514 over 4y, 25% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $2,533,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBaptist Health Deaconess Madisonville — $800,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $586,706 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $551,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGE MINISTRIES INC — $405,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Hardin — $400,345 over 4y, 19% of budgetPADUCAH JUNIOR COLLEGE INC — $350,400 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $332,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC — $270,920 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $253,793 over 5y, 17% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $216,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGPEDC INC — $200,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetONE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC — $195,115 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetLEXINGTON STRIDES AHEAD FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetKNOX REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE — $140,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetMISSION LEXINGTON INC — $130,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetIRONCOLOGY II INC — $130,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetMCCRACKEN COUNTY FOOTBALL BOOSTERS INC — $121,620 over 8y, 39% of budgetPADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $120,591 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetROARING BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $107,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $103,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC — $80,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC — $76,500 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc — $75,890 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA STROKE ASSOCIATION INC — $68,500 over 8y, 21% of budgetPROJECT FIT AMERICA — $66,256 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $64,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $59,993 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC — $57,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPADUCAH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $56,800 over 2y, 19% of budgetSOS INTERNATIONAL INC — $55,340 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $52,020 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOLDHAM CHAMBER & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,140 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetLEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Conference Board Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPADUCAH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $49,605 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $49,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $41,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTwisted Pink Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKentucky Chamber of Commerce Inc — $39,195 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMERCE LEXINGTON INC — $37,322 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARKET HOUSE THEATRE OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY INC — $37,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCitizens of Louisville Organized and United Together Inc — $36,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $31,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Norton Healthcare IncThe Community Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Blue Grass Community …Honorable Order of Ke…Republic Bank Foundat…Community Foundation …The Whas Crusade for …Uofl Health-Louisvill…Elite Homes Charitabl…
Norton Healthcare IncKY50.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Norton Healthcare Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Kyinc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Uofl Health-Louisville Inc · Elite Homes Charitable Foundation 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 Baptist Healthcare System Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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