· Private foundation
Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k100 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k43 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC | $1,290,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH PADUCAH FOUNDATION | $800,000 |
| PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $370,000 |
| WORLD MISSIONS AND EVANGELISM (FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP OF CHURCHES) | $250,000 |
| FRENCH AFRICIAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| MARKET HOUSE THEATRE | $225,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY SCHOOL SYSTEM | $200,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION-LOURDES | $200,000 |
| PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC & LADIES LIVING FREE | $180,000 |
| NEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $175,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $175,000 |
| MISSION PRE-BORN | $150,000 |
| WEST UNION BAPTIST ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| STARFISH ORPHAN MINISTRY | $150,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $110,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $3.7M) 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 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.
211 repeat relationships: 136 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 14 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $11M · revenue +19% · 56% of their budget
- PSPADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +70% · 36% of their budget
- NPNEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +130%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CENTER FPR LAW AND JUSTICEone grant, 2020 · $75k
- MCMORNINGSIDE CHURCH INCone grant, 2020 · $60k
- ODOUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIESone grant, 2019 · $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 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…
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.
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,…
The baptist seminary of kentucky provides christian theological education committed to spiritual depth, intellectual honesty and moral integrity.
Reformed baptist theological seminary see 4a below
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
How this is measured
122 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. 122 of the 271 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
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
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 LUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MARKET HOUSE THEATRE OF PADUCAH KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AFRICAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONFOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds STARFISH ORPHAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds HOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOREVER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- 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 VICTORY THROUGH GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH INTERFAITH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ONE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE NATIONS ALLIANCE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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