· Public charity
Berea College
Berea transforms the lives of students and families by admitting students of high promise and low means.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $749k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- SBSTEP BY STEP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $506k · revenue +191%
- HSHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $459k · revenue +48%
- SCSCOTT CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $420k · revenue +5% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- MAMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2023 · $151k · revenue +15%
- KCKNOTT CO BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BCBreathitt County Board of Educationone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest
Serve abused and/or neglected children in the Gilmer County area via counseling and other social services.
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…
To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.
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.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
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…
To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.
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
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
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.
To provide high-quality patient-centered services that support healthy living among the uninsured and the under-served families in the greater williamson county.
How this is measured
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Berea College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berea College. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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