Kentucky · Public charity
Berea College
Berea transforms the lives of students and families by admitting students of high promise and low means. Core to its mission of transforming lives and circumstances, BEREA COLLEGE covers all costs beyond what the student aid index in the fafsa specifies are the responsibility of the student and family. Furthermore, it covers these costs…
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $890k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,081
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Berea College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $851k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $871k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $1.4M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $735k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $729k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $675k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $707k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $570k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Step by Step Inc | $506,433 | 9 | 8% |
| Hindman Settlement School Inc | $458,614 | 9 | 3% |
| Scott Christian Care Center | $420,338 | 9 | 29% |
| Pine Mountain Settlement School | $372,208 | 9 | 5% |
| The High Rocks Educational Corporation | $294,289 | 9 | 9% |
| The David School Inc | $235,051 | 7 | 17% |
| New Opportunity School for Women Inc | $229,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council | $208,519 | 8 | 15% |
| St Vincent Mission Inc | $203,856 | 9 | 7% |
| Cowan Community Action Group Inc | $191,026 | 8 | 30% |
Show all 106 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Berea College supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Berea College
- How much does Berea College give?
- Berea College reported 47 itemized grants totaling $890,489, out of $5,066,580 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Berea College fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Education (14%), Employment (9%).
- Who are Berea College's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Step by Step Inc ($506k), Hindman Settlement School Inc ($459k), Scott Christian Care Center ($420k).
- Does Berea College fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Berea College?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Berea College based?
- Berea College is based in KY.
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