· Private foundation
Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k98 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k41 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC | $1,270,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH PADUCAH FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $300,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $300,000 |
| FRENCH AFRICIAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| MARKET HOUSE THEATRE | $225,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION-LOURDES | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $200,000 |
| WORLD MISSIONS AND EVANGELISM (FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP OF CHURCHES) | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY SCHOOL SYSTEM | $200,000 |
| NEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $190,000 |
| PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC & LADIES LIVING FREE | $180,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $160,000 |
| STARFISH ORPHAN MINISTRY | $150,000 |
| WEST UNION BAPTIST ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
204 repeat relationships — 141 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LFLUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +19% · 56% of their budget
- PSPADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +70% · 36% of their budget
- NPNEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +130%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CENTER FPR LAW AND JUSTICEone grant, 2020 · $75k
- MCMORNINGSIDE CHURCH INCone grant, 2020 · $60k
- CCCHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTERone grant, 2019 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Post secondary and graduate educational institution The mission of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is to equip vocational Christian workers and other servant leaders while inspiring them to take the Word to the world.
Reformed baptist theological seminary see 4a below
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The baptist seminary of kentucky provides christian theological education committed to spiritual depth, intellectual honesty and moral integrity.
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Upper Town Heritage 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 26 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
119 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 119 of the 257 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARKET HOUSE THEATRE OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AFRICAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONFOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STARFISH ORPHAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOREVER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds The National Quilt Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL INDIA MISSION ↗
- Who funds VICTORY THROUGH GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ONE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH INTERFAITH MINISTRY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of West Kyinc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Baptist Healthcare System Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Blue Grass Community 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 organization Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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