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Bon Secours Kentucky Health System Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Bon Secours Kentucky Health System Foundation Inc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying.

$134k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$1.2MPhilanthropy$30kArts & Culture$17kFood & Nutrition$15kMembership Benefit$10kEducation$10kReligion$8kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $77,473, the rows itemized in this filing. The $133,925 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,452 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.
$77,473
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Inc$77,473
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Inc: $77k → 16%Russell Independent Schools: $10k → 16%OUR LADY OF BELLEFONTE HOSPITAL INC: $798k → 18%Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Inc: $301k → 18%United Way of Northeast KY: $25k → 18%HOLY FAMILY: $8k → 18%Paramount Arts Center: $6k → 18%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 3 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -17% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$1.2M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-17%
-28%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • OL
    Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.2M · revenue -64%
  • MC
    MEMBERS CHOICE CREDIT UNION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +154%
  • SM
    SUMMER MOTION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue -17%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Northeast Kentucky
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -28%
  • AI
    ASHLAND IN MOTION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -100%
  • RI
    RUSSELL INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Ashland Main Street Association

Organize and revitalize the ashland community

Community Improvement
2
Ashland Area Chamber of Commerce

Business league

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3
Downtown Morehead Inc

Promotion of downtown morehead ky

Community Improvement
4
Ashland Community Enterprises

Operation of a historical tourist attraction

Arts & Culture
5
Madisonville Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation

Advancing Madisonville through inclusive comprehensive community development

Philanthropy
6
Ashland Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of business and tourism for City of Ashland

—
7
Murray Calloway Edc

To provide community and economic development services to the murray and calloway county kentucky areas.

—
8
Revitalize Russell Inc

To promote the growth revitalization and beautification of downtown russell ky

Community Improvement
9
Sumter Museum

Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets

Arts & Culture
10
Fohs Hall Inc

To provide for the preservation, maintenance and operation of fohs hall as a civic center and community auditorium in marion, ky

Arts & Culture
11
Rockcastle Hospital & Respiratory Care Center Inc

Rockcastle hospital is organized to provide medical care to members of its community. the hospital has a policy of accepting all patients within its primary service area regardless of ability to pay. mission: rockcastle hospital and…

Health
12
Build Ashland Inc

To provide community support for activities and improvements in ashland ky

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paramount Arts Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ashland Putnam Stadium Restoration Foundation 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Inc: $1,177,252 · OtherOur Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Inc+4 more: $34,065 · OtherUnited Way of Northeast Kentucky: $25,000 · PhilanthropyASHLAND IN MOTION INC: $11,000 · Community ImprovementRIVER CITIES HARVEST INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementSUMMER MOTION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW VENTURE FUND: $5,050 · EnvironmentTHE ASHLAND PUTNAM STADIUM RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,211,317Philanthropy$25,000Community Improvement$16,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Environment$5,050Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOur Lady of Bellefonte Hospital Inc: $1,177,252 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Northeast Kentucky: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetASHLAND IN MOTION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMEMBERS CHOICE CREDIT UNION: $10,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARAMOUNT ARTS CENTER INC: $5,915 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $5,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHLAND PUTNAM STADIUM RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetRIVER CITIES HARVEST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Ashland Hospital Corp…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ashland Hospital CorporationKY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ashland Hospital Corporation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bon Secours Kentucky Health System Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bon Secours Kentucky Health System Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 11 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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