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Beloved Community Foundation at a glance

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Beloved Community 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$18kPublic Benefit$17kArts & Culture$6kPhilanthropy$2kEnvironment$1kHuman Services$700Education$350
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC$5,000
CHURCH OF PROMISE$2,000
KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC$2,000
HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC$700
DRAG DADDY INC$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $350) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE HOPE BUSS INC: $350 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 5 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$36k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+53%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CHURCH OF PROMISE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $17k
  • KC
    KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • KC
    KENTUCKY COALITION INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • SN
    Sol Nation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • SV
    STATE VOICES
    one grant, 2021 · $350 · revenue -21%
  • KA
    Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repressiongraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $350 · revenue +115%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Black Appalachian Coalition

Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC), a multi-state organization working across Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley and Basin, is centered on story-based approaches that amplify Black voices, fights for environmental justice and strengthens…

Civil Rights
2
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
3
Queer Kentucky Inc

Bolster and enhance Queer culture

Arts & Culture
4
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Inc

Kftc is a community of people inspired by a vision of a thriving society where people are free from oppression and where racial, economic and environmental justice exists for all. guided by black, indigenous, people of color, and others…

—
5
Commonwealth Alliance Voter Engagement

Commonwealth alliance voter engagement coordinates and supports grassroots movements in building organizing people power and shaping the political conditions that lead to an equitable and thriving commonwealth for all kentuckians.

Civil Rights
6
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
7
Appalachian Voices

Appalachian voices brings people together to protect the land, air, and water of central and southern appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.

Environment
8
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
9
Kentucky Resources Council Inc

Kentucky resources council (krc) is a public-interest environmental law and advocacy organization that works to protect and defend the people, communities, and natural resources of kentucky. krc uses legal and strategic advocacy to protect…

Environment
10
Kentucky Conference for Community & Justice Inc

Provide support and services to strenthen, support, and grow the capacity of local central kentucky nonprofits.

Crime & Legal
11
Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc

Part III - Organizations MissionTo create broad-based and inclusive participation in a health justice movement in Kentucky that will lead to an increase and improvement in access, quality and scope of accurate and culturally relevant…

Health
12
Commonwealth Alliance Action Fund

To sustain lasting and impactful nonprofit and advocacy infrastructure and networks that support a thriving, informed, and active multi-racial democracy in kentucky.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Hope Buss Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF PROMISE: $17,250 · OtherCHURCH OF PROMISEHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $700 · Other+3 more: $1,050 · Other+3 moreKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT…KENTUCKY COALITION INC: $6,300 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY COALIT…AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERI…Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression: $350 · EducationKentucky Alli…APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $1,912 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $350 · PhilanthropySol Nation Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentDRAG DADDY INC: $800 · Arts & Culture
Other$19,000Community Improvement$10,000Public Benefit$6,300Education$5,350Philanthropy$2,262Environment$1,000Arts & Culture$800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $6,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $1,912 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSol Nation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDRAG DADDY INC: $800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression: $350 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Hope Buss Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Metro United Way IncThe Community Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Metro United Way Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Beloved Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beloved Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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