How much did BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2023?

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC reported 367 grants totaling $22,750,097 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC based?

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is based in KY.

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

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· Community foundation

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

Established in 1967, blue grass community foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life in the bluegrass region by increasing charitable giving and leading on critical community issues.

$23M

Granted FY2023

367

Grants

Communities

$2.7M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 367 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k63 grants · $462k
$10k–50k230 grants · $4.5M
$50k–250k61 grants · $5.6M
$250k+13 grants · $7.8M

$16,946

Median grant

States reached

$223M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH$2,700,000
LFUCG DIVISION OF GRANTS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS$851,106
ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC$759,021
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$611,032
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500,000
THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION$350,000
FLOYD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AT THE FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCK$322,494
FOODCHAIN INC$317,241
TOWN BRANCH PARK$311,513
WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH$300,000
LEGACY GREENSCAPES$299,900
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE$270,000
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC$250,000
CROWN HILL CEMETERY$181,839
LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE$173,699

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$56M · 386 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

386 repeat relationships — 256 still active in FY2023, 130 since wound down; 111 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

386

304

Total granted

$56M

$7.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+35%

Still filing today

70%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

FF
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY
3× · 2020–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +163%
TB
TOWN BRANCH PARK
4× · 2020–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +4% · 42% of their budget
LG
LEGACY GREENSCAPES
4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +12% · 99% of their budget

Funded once

KB
KENTUCKY BLOOD CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
UC
UNION CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $573k
BO
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
one grant, 2022 · $442k · revenue -1%

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.

Kentucky Christian University

Higher education for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions.

Education

Kentucky College of Art Design

The kentucky college of art and design promotes a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.

Education

Kentucky County Judgeexecutive Associat

Provide services to governmental agencies.

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Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland

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

Kentucky Harvest Inc

To end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers (see schedule o) to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.

Food & Nutrition

HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Provide comprehensive primary healthcare services to residents of central kentucky, and specifically medically under-served areas within lexington-fayette county.

Health

Baptist Seminary of Kentucky

The baptist seminary of kentucky provides christian theological education committed to spiritual depth, intellectual honesty and moral integrity.

Education

Canopy Certified Inc

Making kentucky first in good business.

Community Improvement

Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc

Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity.

Health

American Civil Liberties Union of

The american civil liberties union of kentucky (aclu) is freedom'swatchdog, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities todefend the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people bythe constitutions of the united…

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American Dairy Association of Kentucky

Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.

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Kentucky Association of Health

Trade association for long term care facilities in kentucky

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Refugee Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Saddle Horse. 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.

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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%9/685

the rest of the field

11%

2,094/19,633

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

560 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

189

Early backer (in before they grew)

530/560

Grantees still filing

429/560

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$42,743,338Philanthropy$6,632,582Human Services$5,397,497Arts & Culture$5,259,239Education$4,837,546Health$3,812,409Social Science$2,700,000

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

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.

Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels IncKY141.7× affinity125 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · The Community Foundation Of · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation · Elhapa Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · Cralle 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 organisation BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 611377132 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

560 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

560 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph