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Berea College

Berea transforms the lives of students and families by admitting students of high promise and low means.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Human Services$4.3MEducation$1.2MEmployment$779kHealth$583kCommunity Improvement$404kEnvironment$298kCrime & Legal$199kArts & Culture$177kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 47 grants below total $890,489 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,066,580 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,176,091 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $749k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hindman Settlement School$65,081
Step by Step Inc$49,594
Scott Christian Care Center$42,169
High Rocks Educational Corp$40,822
Pine Mountain Settlement School$40,250
Red Bird Mission$32,000
Appalachian NE-TN Resource$31,997
New Opportunity School for Women$30,000
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc$29,033
Lincoln County Family Resource$28,961
Owsley County Board of Education$28,897
Red Bird Mountain Medical Center$26,000
Hospice of the Bluegrass$22,500
St Vincent Mission Inc$21,296
Thompson Scholars Foundation$20,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program: $24k → 15%Judis Place for Kids Inc: $25k → 25%Cumberland Valley Domestic Violence Services Inc: $19k → 20%Judis Place for Kids Inc: $19k → 25%Hospice of the Bluegrass: $23k → 27%Cowan Community Action Group: $38k → 29%New Opportunity School for Women: $30k → 16%Cumberland Valley Domestic Violence Services Inc: $17k → 20%Judis Place for Kids Inc: $17k → 25%Cowan Community Action Group: $23k → 29%New Opportunity School: $25k → 16%Cumberland Valley Domestic Violence Services Inc: $17k → 20%Judis Place for Kids Inc: $16k → 25%Hospice of the Bluegrass: $19k → 27%Cowan Community Action Group: $16k → 29%Hospice Care Plus: $25k → 16%Hospice of the Bluegrass: $17k → 27%New Opportunity School: $25k → 16%Children's Center of the Cumberlands: $25k → 22%New Opportunity School: $25k → 16%St Vincent Mission Inc: $29k → 35%Children's Center of the Cumberlands: $20k → 22%Step by Step Inc: $86k → 18%New Opportunity School: $25k → 16%St Vincent Mission Inc: $27k → 35%Children's Center of the Cumberlands: $19k → 22%Step by Step Inc: $53k → 18%New Opportunity School: $25k → 16%St Vincent Mission Inc: $27k → 35%Children's Center of the Cumberlands: $19k → 22%Step by Step Inc: $52k → 18%New Opportunity School: $25k → 16%St Vincent Mission Inc: $21k → 35%Step by Step Inc: $50k → 18%Hospice Care Plus: $20k → 16%St Vincent Mission Inc: $17k → 35%Children's Center of the Cumberlands: $17k → 22%Step by Step Inc: $48k → 18%Hospice Care Plus: $19k → 16%Children's Center of the Cumberlands: $17k → 22%Step by Step Inc: $32k → 18%Step by Step Inc: $29k → 18%Hospice Care Plus: $18k → 16%Step by Step Inc: $21k → 18%Hospice Care Plus: $18k → 16%Turning Point Domestic Violence Services Inc: $18k → 35%Turning Point Domestic Violence Services Inc: $17k → 35%Turning Point Domestic Violence Services Inc: $17k → 35%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

NY
OH
KY
WV
VA
TN
NC
AL

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 57 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
43

Total granted

$6.7M
$939k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+29%

Still filing today

75%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SB
    STEP BY STEP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $506k · revenue +191%
  • HS
    HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $459k · revenue +48%
  • TH
    THE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $294k · revenue +393%

Funded once

  • MA
    MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $151k · revenue +15%
  • JI
    JENKINS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • KC
    KNOTT CO BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

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
Wayne County Community Services Organization

Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv

Community Improvement
2
Appalachia Habitat for Humanity Inc

To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest

Housing & Shelter
3
Housing Hub

Building homes working families can afford. We are dedicated to: providing new, affordable homes to residents in the South Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee; preparing future and current homeowners to both acquire and maintain a safe and…

Housing & Shelter
4
Appalachian Childrens Center Inc

Serve abused and/or neglected children in the Gilmer County area via counseling and other social services.

Recreation & Sports
5
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc

To serve those in need by acquiring and distributing food, grocery items, and government commodities through a network of charitable partnering agencies in 42 kentucky counties.

Food & Nutrition
6
Healthpoint Family Care Inc

To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.

Health
7
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
8
Community Agricultural and Nutritional Enterprises Inc

Increase agricultural footprint in letcher co ky and surrounding counties; establish permanent outlet for local farm products and creation of value added products; access to healthy local food; gain skills in preparing foods; offering of…

Food & Nutrition
9
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project

To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.

Environment
10
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
11
The Center for Rural Development Inc

To provide economic development to southeastern kentucky.

Community Improvement
12
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Social ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Local Food System Organizat…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …
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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr14%16%35–55yr18%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%7%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr18%23%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/108
the rest of the field
12%
2,431/20,210

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

75 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. 75 of the 108 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/75
Grantees still filing
48/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STEP BY STEP INC — $506,433 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP INCNEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC — $229,000 · Human ServicesNEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOME…ST VINCENT MISSION INC — $203,856 · Human ServicesST VINCENT MISSION INCCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC — $191,026 · Human ServicesCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP IN…CHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND — $166,500 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERL…BETHANY HOUSE ABUSE SHELTER INC — $164,500 · Human ServicesBETHANY HOUSE ABUSE SHELTER INCHOSPICE CARE PLUS INC — $159,800 · Human ServicesHOSPICE CARE PLUS INCHospice of the Bluegrass Inc — $133,750 · Human ServicesHospice of the Bluegrass IncTURNING POINT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC — $120,500 · Human ServicesJUDIS PLACE FOR KIDS INC — $114,500 · Human ServicesCumberland Valley Domestic Violence Services Inc — $113,500 · Human ServicesGREENHOUSE17 INC — $95,450 · Human Services+6 more — $143,266 · Human Services+6 morePINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL — $372,208 · OtherPINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOLOWSLEY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION — $151,924 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $118,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $103,000 · OtherRED BIRD MISSION INC — $102,896 · OtherAppalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council — $208,519 · OtherAppalachian Resource Conservation & Deve…KENTUCKY RIVER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE — $122,500 · Other+57 more — $1,807,994 · Other+57 moreHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC — $458,614 · EducationHINDMAN SETT…THE DAVID SCHOOL INC — $235,051 · EducationTHE DAVID SC…FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC — $80,000 · EducationFRONTIER NUR…VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $78,110 · EducationVIRGINIA TEC…+7 more — $101,343 · Education+7 moreSCOTT CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER — $420,338 · HealthSCOTT CHR…RED BIRD CLINC INC — $180,500 · HealthRED BIRD …KENTUCKY DIABETES CAMP FOR CHILDREN INC D/B/A CAMP HENDON — $42,000 · HealthKENTUCKY …+3 more — $33,111 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $615,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $39,950 · PhilanthropyAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $151,534 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC — $150,882 · Community ImprovementHENDERSON SETTLEMENT INC — $127,635 · Community ImprovementLincoln County Family Resource Network — $28,961 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $294,289 · Employment
Human Services$2,342,081Other$2,987,541Education$953,118Health$675,949Philanthropy$654,950Community Improvement$464,012Employment$294,289

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $615,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSTEP BY STEP INC — $506,433 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC — $458,614 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetSCOTT CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER — $420,338 over 9y, 29% of budgetPINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL — $372,208 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTHE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $294,289 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetTHE DAVID SCHOOL INC — $235,051 over 7y, 17% of budgetNEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC — $229,000 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetAppalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council — $208,519 over 8y, 15% of budgetST VINCENT MISSION INC — $203,856 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC — $191,026 over 8y, 30% of budgetRED BIRD CLINC INC — $180,500 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND — $166,500 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetBETHANY HOUSE ABUSE SHELTER INC — $164,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetHOSPICE CARE PLUS INC — $159,800 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAPPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $151,534 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC — $150,882 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc — $133,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON SETTLEMENT INC — $127,635 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetKENTUCKY RIVER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE — $122,500 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTURNING POINT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC — $120,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetJUDIS PLACE FOR KIDS INC — $114,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetCumberland Valley Domestic Violence Services Inc — $113,500 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetRED BIRD MISSION INC — $102,896 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGREENHOUSE17 INC — $95,450 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INC — $79,500 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $78,110 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $74,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMPSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $63,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC — $60,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMORRISTOWN HAMBLEN CENTRAL SERVICES INC — $49,279 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetKENTUCKY DIABETES CAMP FOR CHILDREN INC D/B/A CAMP HENDON — $42,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetEASTERN KENTUCKY CHILD CARE COALITION INC — $40,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC — $34,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Matters Cincinnati Inc — $28,766 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLEND A HAND CENTER INC — $28,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $27,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOTTS CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWILLIAMSON HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER INC — $22,111 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRural Resources — $20,444 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,308 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGROW OHIO VALLEY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRURAL APPALACHIAN IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE INC — $19,950 over 1y, 27% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA — $17,663 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds STEP BY STEP INC ↗
  • Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SCOTT CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE HIGH ROCKS EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds RED BIRD CLINC INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF THE CUMBERLAND ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY HOUSE ABUSE SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE CARE PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSON SETTLEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY RIVER CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDIS PLACE FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cumberland Valley Domestic Violence Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds RED BIRD MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENHOUSE17 INC ↗
  • Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMPSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA 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.

Foundation for Appala…Honorable Order of Ke…Blue Grass Community …Save The Children Fed…Children IncorporatedThompson Charitable F…Cralle Foundation IncSnowy Owl Foundation …Kentucky Social Welfa…The Steele-Reese Foun…The Arh Foundation fo…East Tennessee Founda…
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky IncKY49.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc · Children Incorporated · Thompson Charitable Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation · The Steele-Reese Foundation Xxxxx1004 · The Arh Foundation for Healthier Communities Inc · East Tennessee Foundation

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 Berea College 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%2%8%17%30%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
    28report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Berea College?

    Find your warmest path to Berea College through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 108 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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