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Children's Charity Fund of the Bluegrass Inc

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$358k
Granted FY2022
17
Grants FY2022
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States reached
$87k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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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 2022.

Health$784kHuman Services$422kCrime & Legal$214kEducation$156kArts & Culture$114kFood & Nutrition$110kYouth Development$76kRecreation & Sports$59kOther$0
02FY2022 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $271,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $358,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $87,000 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$87,000
LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER$20,000
CHILREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$15,000
GODS PANTRY$15,000
THE NEST$15,000
BABY HEALTH SERVICES INC$15,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS$13,500
GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL$10,000
THE TOY CHEST$10,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES$10,000
LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
EASTER SEALS CARDINAL HILL$7,500
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC$7,500
ALL GODS CHILDREN$7,500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 45 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2022, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
8

Total granted

$1.9M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+48%

Still filing today

87%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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 Lexington Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $421k · revenue +342%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $113k · revenue +203%
  • CD
    CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROJECT CAMP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +48%
  • RH
    ROCKCASTLE HOSPITAL & RESPIRATORY CARE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +19%
  • FF
    FEED FAYETTE EATING EDUCATION AND F
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -18%
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.

03Its 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
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.

Crime & Legal
2
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
3
Child Care Council of Kentucky Inc

The child care council of kentucky is committed to supporting providers, empowering families and strengthening communities by expanding access to high quality child care resources, advocacy, and training.

Human Services
4
Children's Alliance Incorporated

Shape public policy and practice to improve the well-being of kentucky's at-risk children and families through advocacy, leadership, collaboration, and education.

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5
Northern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center Inc

Provide a coordinated response to concerns of child abuse in a child-focused environment, offering prevention, evaluation and treatment to children and families.

Health
6
Child Development Center Corporation

To provide kdmc team members and members of the community the convenience of an exceptional child development center that promotes physical, emotional, intellectual, and social growth in a christian values-based environment, supporting the…

Human Services
7
Kentucky Youth Advocates Inc

For nearly 50 years, kentucky youth advocates (kya) has worked to improve child well-being, public policies, and systems that influence the lives of children, families, and communities. kya is the only multi-issue, statewide child advocacy…

Civil Rights
8
Kentucky Council On Child Abuse D/B/a Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky

To prevent the abuse and neglect of kentucky's children.

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9
Kentucky Center for Special Children Services Inc

Providing preschool services to children of all abilities including those diagnosed with autism and other developmental disabilities.

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10
Kids Chance of Kentucky Inc

Provide educational scholarships to children of kentucky workers who have been seriously or fatally injured in work related accidents.

Education
11
Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky

The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities and offer a…

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12
Kentucky Diabetes Camp for Children Inc D/B/a Camp Hendon

The mission of camp hendon is to give children with diabetes life-changing experiences, empowering each of them to take control of their unique journey.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; the most unlike its peers is Allegro Dance Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Baptist Health Foundation Lexington Inc: $421,000 · HealthBaptist Health Foundation Lexington IncMAKENNA FOUNDATION INC: $134,000 · HealthMAKENNA FOUNDATION INCBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $70,000 · HealthBABY HEALTH SERVICES INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $53,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGR…KENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC DBA EASTERSEALS BLUEGRASS: $36,500 · HealthCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $27,000 · Health+6 more: $47,360 · Health+6 moreTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $112,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCAC…CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $106,000 · Human ServicesCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT…CASA OF LEXINGTON INC: $66,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF LEXINGTON INCLIFE ADVENTURE CENTER INC: $28,502 · Human ServicesLIFE ADVENTURE CENTER …JARRETT'S JOY CART INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesJARRETT'S JOY CART INCALL GOD'S CHILDREN INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesHORSIN' AROUND CAMP INC: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $22,300 · Human Services+3 moreGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $105,000 · OtherGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK …CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $47,500 · OtherCENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING…VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: $45,500 · OtherVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESC…TOY CHEST CORPORATION: $35,000 · OtherTOY CHEST CORPORATIONBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $34,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER…WILDERNESS TRACE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTE CORPORATION: $30,000 · OtherWILDERNESS TRACE CHILD …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY: $25,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN A…+12 more: $75,880 · Other+12 moreGROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC: $56,190 · EducationKORE ACADEMY INC: $50,500 · EducationCARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $17,500 · EducationGIRLS ON THE RUN CENTRAL KENTUCKY CORPORATION: $12,750 · EducationCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $95,000 · Crime & LegalGATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC: $31,700 · Crime & LegalLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $45,900 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALLEGRO DANCE PROJECT INC: $5,200 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $14,780 · Youth Development
Health$789,360Human Services$390,802Other$398,380Education$136,940Crime & Legal$126,700Arts & Culture$92,600Youth Development$14,780

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaptist Health Foundation Lexington Inc: $421,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetMAKENNA FOUNDATION INC: $134,000 over 6y, 78% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $112,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $106,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $95,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $70,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetCASA OF LEXINGTON INC: $66,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetGROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC: $56,190 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $53,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetKORE ACADEMY INC: $50,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $47,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $45,900 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: $45,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKENTUCKY EASTER SEAL SOCIETY INC DBA EASTERSEALS BLUEGRASS: $36,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $34,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC: $31,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLIFE ADVENTURE CENTER INC: $28,502 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJARRETT'S JOY CART INC: $23,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALL GOD'S CHILDREN INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $17,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHORSIN' AROUND CAMP INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $14,780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN CENTRAL KENTUCKY CORPORATION: $12,750 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC: $12,700 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOSTER CARE COUNCIL OF LEXKY INC: $12,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetROCKCASTLE HOSPITAL & RESPIRATORY CARE CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $6,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSCOTT COUNTY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $5,680 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNEWSONG COUNSELING CENTER INC: $4,160 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCASA OF THE WILDERNESS TRAIL INC: $3,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNewton's Attic Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHANDS AND VOICES OF KENTUCKY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Blue Grass Community …Honorable Order of Ke…United Way of the Blu…The Whas Crusade for …American Water Charit…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Keeneland Foundation …The Copia Foundation …The King's Daughters …The Community Foundat…Elhapa Foundation IncNisource Charitable F…
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY63.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · The Copia Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable 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 Children's Charity Fund of the Bluegrass Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Charity Fund of the Bluegrass Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Children's Charity Fund of the Bluegrass 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 53 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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