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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.

$27M
Granted FY2025still arriving
514
Grants FY2025still arriving
27
States reached
$520k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$29MReligion$12MPhilanthropy$12MArts & Culture$12MHealth$9.0MHuman Services$9.0MRecreation & Sports$8.3MEnvironment$4.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 514 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 514 grants below total $20,720,184, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,250,165 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,529,981 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k138 grants · $994k
  • $10k–50k271 grants · $5.7M
  • $50k–250k88 grants · $8.2M
  • $250k+17 grants · $5.8M
$16,822
Median grant
27
States reached
$296M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FAYETTE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$520,164
ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC$480,384
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ATHLETICS$404,325
WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH$400,000
SAFE PASSAGE$396,590
FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$379,123
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY$369,533
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE$350,000
HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVICES INC$350,000
CLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES$294,275
GATTON PARK ON THE TOWN BRANCH$292,272
CLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION$281,957
FRANKLIN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$272,242
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$254,965
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS$251,207
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $100k → 18%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $400k → 19%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $50k → 16%MERCY CHEFS INC: $55k → 9%Larry H Spears Foundation: $45k → 13%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $300k → 19%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $36k → 16%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $300k → 19%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $100k → 29%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $90k → 19%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $50k → 19%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $50k → 19%PHOENIX SUNS CHARITIES INC: $50k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $187k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS - BLUEGRASS AREA CHAPTER: $56k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%CAMP HORSIN' AROUND: $51k → 15%Clark County Community Services: $51k → 15%STEP BY STEP INC: $90k → 15%STEP BY STEP INC: $65k → 15%STEP BY STEP INC: $63k → 15%STEP BY STEP INC: $39k → 15%THE FOSTER CARE COUNCIL OF LEXKY: $36k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $67k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS (HEADQUARTERS LEXINGTON REGIONAL OFFICE): $59k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $53k → 15%Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $50k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $45k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $43k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $41k → 15%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $32k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES: $42k → 15%ITN BLUEGRASS: $59k → 15%NEWTON'S ATTIC: $40k → 15%NEWTON'S ATTIC: $36k → 15%NEWTON'S ATTIC: $33k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $65k → 15%CHILDREN'S CHARITY FUND OF THE BLUEGRASS: $54k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $40k → 15%CHILDREN'S CHARITY FUND OF THE BLUEGRASS: $39k → 15%ITNBLUEGRASS: $37k → 15%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $33k → 15%COMMUNITY RESPONSE COALITION OF KENTUCKY INC: $118k → 15%COMMUNITY RESPONSE COALITION OF KENTUCKY INC: $72k → 15%COMMUNITY RESPONSE COALITION OF KENTUCKY INC: $56k → 15%CASA OF LEXINGTON: $54k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $38k → 15%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF LEXINGTON: $34k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103M · 531 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

531 repeat relationships: 363 still active in FY2025, 168 since wound down; 124 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

531
370

Total granted

$103M
$9.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+16%

Still filing today

68%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +40%
  • TB
    TOWN BRANCH PARK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +7% · 42% of their budget
  • WB
    WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • KB
    KENTUCKY BLOOD CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
  • UC
    UNION CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $573k
  • 1C
    1 CLAY COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $425k
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
Kentucky Harvest Inc

Kentucky harvest's purpose is to end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
2
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
3
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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4
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. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…

Health
5
Family Trust Foundation of Kentucky

To stand for ky families and the biblical values that make them strong. work to educate and advocate for biblically sound public policy, including life, marriage & family, and religious freedom, that points people back to gods design for…

Human Services
6
Kentucky Bankers Association

To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…

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7
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
8
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
9
Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Inc

Facilitate agricultural and rural business development in kentucky by 1) providing leadership, educational, technical and financial resources and 2) improving the economic conditions of rural kentucky through promoting development of new…

Food & Nutrition
10
Kentucky College of Art Design

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

Education
11
Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Foundation

To support those in need and improve the quality of life throughout the commonwealth of kentucky.

Education
12
Kentucky Bar Association

To maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with the rules set forth by the kentucky supreme court and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Plan of Kentucky Inc; the most unlike its peers is Patty Marsh Biddle Archives 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

725 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. 725 of the 1,050 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.

63
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
182
Early backer (in before they grew)
691/725
Grantees still filing
472/725
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $5,313,216 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYMAGOFFIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $5,007,000 · OtherMAGOFFIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONUniversity of Kentucky: $4,383,156 · OtherUniversity of KentuckyUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ATHLETICS: $3,112,119 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON KY: $2,419,249 · OtherAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $2,950,000 · OtherTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $2,858,408 · Other+95 more: $35,180,135 · Other+95 moreFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $4,647,027 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION…BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,612,382 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AM…NEWMAN FOUNDATION INC: $894,300 · PhilanthropyNEWMAN FOU…JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $791,889 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED…CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH: $615,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC E…MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $518,000 · PhilanthropyMONTGOMERY…+3 more: $595,450 · Philanthropy+3 moreWHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $1,190,000 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $826,381 · Human ServicesCLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN: $656,303 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $562,641 · Human ServicesCLARK COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR HANDIC CITIZENS INC: $515,263 · Human ServicesHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $418,169 · Human ServicesSafe Passage Inc: $396,590 · Human ServicesStep by Step Inc: $372,771 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $307,808 · Human ServicesGREENHOUSE17 INC: $300,116 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESPONSE COALITION OF KENTUCKY INC: $266,176 · Human Services+9 more: $1,620,201 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $1,496,252 · Arts & CultureCIVICLEX INCORPORATED: $669,980 · Arts & CultureWINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $563,612 · Arts & CultureBLUEGRASS HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $536,756 · Arts & CultureLEXARTS INC: $498,231 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $421,056 · Arts & CultureJOSEPHINE SCULPTURE PARK INC: $309,956 · Arts & CultureSHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC: $255,315 · Arts & CultureART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $247,167 · Arts & CultureCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: $240,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $1,617,608 · Arts & CultureThe Fayette County Public Schools Education Foundation Corporation: $520,164 · EducationRedwood Cooperative School: $491,334 · EducationPROVIDENCE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $412,174 · EducationLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $383,501 · EducationLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC: $351,526 · EducationTHE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION: $350,000 · EducationHEARTS IN MIND INC: $349,800 · EducationBLESSING HANDS INC: $309,169 · EducationBLACK MALE WORKING ACADEMY INC: $300,613 · EducationCARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $254,516 · EducationKCEOC COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $250,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $240,000 · EducationPARIS GREYHOUND FOOTBALL FOUNDATION INC: $224,726 · EducationCENTRE COLLEGE: $212,000 · Education+11 more: $1,603,372 · EducationKENTUCKY BLOOD CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $646,300 · HealthSTABLE RECOVERY INC: $610,233 · HealthTHE ARH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES INC: $381,000 · HealthCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $332,057 · HealthHOOVES OF HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $321,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $314,654 · HealthKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE KENTUCKY INC: $278,435 · HealthMISSION LEXINGTON INC: $237,473 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $227,750 · Health+6 more: $920,210 · HealthROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC: $1,851,917 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $450,000 · Community ImprovementCommon Good Community Development Corporation: $299,104 · Community ImprovementLexington Community Radio Inc: $249,883 · Community ImprovementSeedleaf Inc: $202,548 · Community ImprovementNorthside Common Market: $181,680 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCLARK COALITION FOUNDATION INC: $129,646 · Community Improvement
Other$61,223,283Philanthropy$9,674,048Human Services$7,432,419Arts & Culture$6,855,933Education$6,252,895Health$5,269,112Community Improvement$3,514,778

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $4,647,027 over 5y, 47% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $2,950,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $2,858,408 over 6y, 42% of budgetROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC: $1,851,917 over 3y, 100% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,612,382 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY GREENSCAPES INC: $1,540,821 over 6y, 99% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $1,496,252 over 9y, 16% of budgetWHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $1,190,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetCROWN HILL CEMETERY: $1,119,905 over 8y, 97% of budgetFOODCHAIN INC: $1,110,012 over 8y, 23% of budgetKENTUCKY BLOOD CENTER INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetROWLAND ARTS CENTER: $994,622 over 8y, 98% of budgetNEWMAN FOUNDATION INC: $894,300 over 9y, 28% of budgetESPERANZA INC: $889,725 over 5y, 92% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $881,922 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $826,381 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $791,889 over 9y, 36% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $748,420 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $709,010 over 9y, 42% of budgetCENTRAL EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $705,000 over 7y, 30% of budgetCIVICLEX INCORPORATED: $669,980 over 9y, 71% of budgetCLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN: $656,303 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $646,300 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH: $615,000 over 5y, 90% of budgetSTABLE RECOVERY INC: $610,233 over 2y, 28% of budgetHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $600,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $576,908 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $570,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $563,612 over 9y, 31% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $562,641 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEGRASS HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $536,756 over 9y, 39% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $530,752 over 9y, 10% of budgetThe Fayette County Public Schools Education Foundation Corporation: $520,164 over 1y, 56% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $518,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC: $517,363 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetCLARK COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR HANDIC CITIZENS INC: $515,263 over 9y, 9.8% of budgetMCCONATHY FARM RESCUE TEAM CORPORATION: $510,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetLEXARTS INC: $498,231 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetRedwood Cooperative School: $491,334 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $450,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetKENTUCKY HEARTWOOD INC: $425,662 over 9y, 56% of budgetLEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $421,056 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $418,169 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $412,174 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $406,583 over 6y, 18% of budgetJUST FUND EDUCATION PROJECT INC: $399,528 over 7y, 46% of budgetLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $383,501 over 9y, 17% of budgetTHE ARH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES INC: $381,000 over 3y, 17% 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.

  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY GREENSCAPES INC ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds CROWN HILL CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY BLOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROWLAND ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEWMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CIVICLEX INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds STABLE RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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.

Honorable Order of Ke…United Way of the Blu…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Elhapa Foundation IncKeeneland Foundation …The Community Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…The King's Daughters …Roaring Brook Foundat…The Community Foundat…Christian Word Minist…
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels IncKY145.1× affinity141 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 · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc

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 Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
48report 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
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 1050 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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home