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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
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 2024.

Education$4.5MReligion$3.1MRecreation & Sports$1.0MArts & Culture$599kHuman Services$365kHealth$216kHousing & Shelter$211kInternational$135kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $1,016,652, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,480,895 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $464,243 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $531k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $411k
$12,800
Median grant
6
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $15k → 19%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $12k → 19%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $12k → 19%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & SERVICES OF KENTUCKY: $50k → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $8k → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $6k → 15%HELPING HAND OF HOPE: $9k → 13%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

CA
KY
VA
NM
TN
SC
AL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.8M · 45 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
24

Total granted

$8.8M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+6%

Still filing today

53%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BH
    Baptist Health Foundation Hardin
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +47% · 57% of their budget
  • BH
    BROWN-PUSEY HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $398k · revenue +74% · 51% of their budget
  • KE
    KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SR
    SPORTS REACH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -82% · 82% of their budget
  • EP
    ELIZABETHTOWN POLICE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +35%
  • H
    HOSANNAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +118%
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 Habitat for Humanity Inc

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…

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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
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
4
Hospice of Southern Kentucky Inc

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…

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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 Equine Humane Center Inc

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.

Animals
7
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
8
Kentucky Baptist Fellowship Inc

Our mission is to equip and empower kentucky baptist churches and christians, cultivate partnerships, and engage in missions.

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9
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
10
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
11
Kentucky Blood Center Inc

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…

Health
12
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Homes and Services of Kentucky Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
27/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEVERNS VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,527,463 · OtherSEVERNS VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCHJEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $1,315,570 · OtherJEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGEBaptist Health Foundation Hardin: $1,094,990 · OtherBaptist Health Foundation HardinSPORTS REACH INC: $1,000,000 · OtherSPORTS REACH INCLARUE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $610,000 · OtherLARUE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF LOUISVILLE: $507,900 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF LOUISVILLEFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $407,175 · OtherBROWN-PUSEY HOUSE INC: $397,760 · Other+53 more: $1,710,381 · Other+53 moreKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $451,934 · EducationCampbellsville University Inc: $91,036 · EducationHERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $91,000 · EducationFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY: $75,900 · EducationCOLLEGE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $34,261 · Education+2 more: $17,000 · EducationKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $319,160 · Arts & CultureFriends of Rancho San Pedro: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $12,312 · Arts & CultureLEGACY MISSION INTERNATIONAL: $134,500 · ReligionShepherds Staff Mission Fac Inc: $36,000 · ReligionHOSANNA: $35,000 · ReligionCAMPUS OUTREACH SERVE INC: $11,000 · ReligionFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $90,400 · Food & NutritionWarm Blessings INC: $85,844 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL VALLEY FEED THE HOMELESS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHELPING HAND OF HOPE INC: $62,451 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES OF KENTUCKY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $39,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGHAVEN INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $13,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $77,931 · HealthHEARTLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $29,399 · HealthCOMMUNICARE INC: $20,139 · HealthUNIV OF LOUISVILLE MED SCHOOL PRACTICE ASSOC DBA UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS ASSOC: $16,316 · Health
Other$8,571,239Education$761,131Arts & Culture$371,472Religion$216,500Food & Nutrition$186,244Human Services$179,951Health$143,785

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 budgetBaptist Health Foundation Hardin: $1,094,990 over 5y, 57% of budgetSPORTS REACH INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $451,934 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetBROWN-PUSEY HOUSE INC: $397,760 over 8y, 51% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $319,160 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLEGACY MISSION INTERNATIONAL: $134,500 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $91,036 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $91,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $90,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWarm Blessings INC: $85,844 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $77,931 over 6y, 13% of budgetFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY: $75,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND OF HOPE INC: $62,451 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES AND SERVICES OF KENTUCKY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA OF THE HEARTLAND: $48,944 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetFriends of Rancho San Pedro: $40,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $39,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION HOPE FOR KIDS INC: $37,450 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetShepherds Staff Mission Fac Inc: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEARN INC: $35,963 over 3y, 15% of budgetHOSANNA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $29,399 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $22,574 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNICARE INC: $20,139 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Society for Technology in Education: $19,204 over 1y, 15% of budgetUNIV OF LOUISVILLE MED SCHOOL PRACTICE ASSOC DBA UNIVERSITY PHYSICIANS ASSOC: $16,316 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSILVERLEAF SEXUAL TRAUMA RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $15,599 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSPRINGHAVEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF HARDIN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $14,191 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LINCOLN MUSEUM INC: $12,312 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $11,865 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY NONPROFIT NETWORK INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY FEED THE HOMELESS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGREENSPACE INC: $8,477 over 1y, 15% of budgetRIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF KENTUCKY: $7,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE KARE LLC: $7,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAPTOR REHABILITATION OF KENTUCKY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…The Community Foundat…The Whas Crusade for …Second Sixty Charitab…United Way of Central…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Mary Cofer Trigg Tuw …Kosair Charities Comm…Schmidt Family Founda…Dow Company Foundation
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY41.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 87 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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