· Community foundation
Central Kentucky Community Foundation Inc
To serve as philanthropic connector for donors in the central kentucky region who wish to make their community a better place.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $1,016,652 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,480,895 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $464,243 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $531k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $411k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LARUE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $150,000 |
| LEGACY MISSION INTERNATIONAL | $97,500 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $60,000 |
| THE BROWN-PUSEY HOUSE | $53,987 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & SERVICES OF KENTUCKY | $50,000 |
| KET | $43,499 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $42,023 |
| BRANDENBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| DOMINGUEZ RANCHO ADOBE MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| SEVERNS VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| CASA OF THE HEARTLAND | $25,844 |
| FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND | $24,600 |
| WARM BLESSINGS | $23,661 |
| HOPE ACADEMY FOR KIDS | $22,250 |
| HERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $20,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 16 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k 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
- BHBaptist Health Foundation Hardin5× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +47% · 57% of their budget
- BHBROWN-PUSEY HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $398k · revenue +74% · 51% of their budget
- KEKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- SRSPORTS REACH INCone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -82% · 82% of their budget
- EPELIZABETHTOWN POLICE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +35%
- HHOSANNAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +118%
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.
Kentucky Habitat for Humanity's purpose is to work on a statewide level to create partnerships, financial resources, and educational programs to support the mission of building decent, affordable, and sustainable homes and communities for…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
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…
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Our mission is to equip and empower kentucky baptist churches and christians, cultivate partnerships, and engage in missions.
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.
Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry, Inc (KHFH) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, managed by volunteers, and dedicated to the mission of feeding the needy throughout the commonwealth of Kentucky. We are a statewide hunger relief…
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…
At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Homes and Services of Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Rancho San Pedro. 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 40 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 87 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
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 Baptist Health Foundation Hardin ↗
- Who funds SPORTS REACH INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN-PUSEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY MISSION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Warm Blessings INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Rancho San Pedro ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOPE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Staff Mission Fac Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Second Sixty Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Kentucky Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mary Cofer Trigg Tuw Char · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Schmidt Family Foundation · Dow Company Foundation
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 Central Kentucky 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.
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.