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Charity League Inc

Organization was organized to help support organizations that provide help to children such as west kentucky easter seal center.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$430kHuman Services$40kCrime & Legal$29kHousing & Shelter$11kPhilanthropy$8kYouth Development$6k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $39,012, the rows itemized in this filing. The $71,812 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $32,800 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
$31,512
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY$31,512
PADUCAH INTERFAITH MINISTRY INC$7,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%PADUCAH INTERFAITH MINISTRY INC: $8k → 15%EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY: $93k → 15%EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY: $72k → 15%EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY: $63k → 15%EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY: $43k → 15%EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY: $40k → 15%EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY: $32k → 15%EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY: $26k → 15%EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY: $24k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES: $6k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY: $5k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY: $5k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $5k → 15%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$479k · 6 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +201% since the first grant, against +71% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$479k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+201%
+71%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ES
    EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $393k · revenue +111%
  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation
    2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +234%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • WA
    WOMEN AWARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +71%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WESTERN KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +25%
  • CC
    CASSIDY'S CAUSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +874%
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
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
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
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
4
Healthpoint Family Care Inc

To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.

Health
5
Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center Inc

To act as a regional blood bank

Health
6
Baptist Health Richmond Inc

To provide quality health care by a team of highly-skilled physicians & staff through nurturing, personalized services.

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7
Ccmh Corporation

Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.

Health
8
Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce

The paducah chamber of commerce is a membership of diverse economic interests unified to provide service to its members and leadership in promoting quality economic development in paducah, mccracken county, & the region.

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Western Ky Regional Mental Health & Ment Dba Four Rivers Behavioral

To provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation-developmental disability services that promote the health and quality of life of our community members.

Health
11
Civiclex Incorporated

Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.

Arts & Culture
12
Keystone Care

Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Western Kentucky; the most unlike its peers is Cassidy's Cause Therapeutic Riding Academy 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC: $392,957 · Human ServicesEASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INCFAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,055 · Human ServicesRAPE VICTIM SERVICES INC: $28,553 · OtherRAPE VICT…WOMEN AWARE INC: $10,754 · OtherWOMEN AWA…MOSES BASKET INC: $5,000 · OtherMOSES BAS…Baptist Health Foundation Paducah Inc: $15,000 · HealthCASSIDY'S CAUSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $7,525 · HealthBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $15,000 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF WESTERN KENTUCKY: $7,628 · PhilanthropyOSCAR CROSS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $6,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$428,012Other$44,307Health$22,525Religion$15,000Philanthropy$7,628Youth Development$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEASTER SEALS WEST KENTUCKY INC: $392,957 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetRAPE VICTIM SERVICES INC: $28,553 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Paducah Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $12,555 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN AWARE INC: $10,754 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTERN KENTUCKY: $7,628 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCASSIDY'S CAUSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC: $7,525 over 1y, 21% of budgetOSCAR CROSS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Ray & Kay Eckstein Ch…Community Foundation …United Way of Western…Honorable Order of Ke…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable TrustKY26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of West Kyinc · United Way of Western Kentucky · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Charity League Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charity League Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Charity League Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Charity League Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $103k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2025, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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