· Private foundation
Christian Word Ministries Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $202k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $323k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARKEY CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| STABLE RECOVERY | $50,000 |
| HOPE CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC ACTION CENTER | $20,000 |
| BRICK BY BRICK MINISTRY | $18,000 |
| JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON | $15,000 |
| BLUEGRASS CHRISTIAN CAMP | $15,000 |
| PISGAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER | $15,000 |
| UK CHILDREN'S HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 18 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +104%
- LSLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $97k · revenue +5%
- GPGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- LPLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUNDone grant, 2022 · $25k
- COCHURCH OF GOD SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2019 · $20k
- VLVALIANT LIVING INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -23%
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.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
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.
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.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Our mission is to enrich and connect our community through welcoming spaces, engaged staff, diverse resources, and lifelong learning opportunities. we create a stronger community by meeting our customers where and how they need us and…
Provides health and healing to neighbors in need through charitable healthcare clinics.
The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…
Kendal at lexington, a not-for-profit life plan community, grounded in quaker values, provides opportunities for a diverse population of older adults from the lexington, buena vista, and rockbridge county, virginia areas and beyond, to…
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…
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…
The organization's mission is to steward the land and to manage and preserve the affordability of housing in the redeveloped mitigation area of the newtown pike extension area; and elsewhere in greater lexington and fayette county in the…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Highbridge Aquatics Inc. 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 48 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 117 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds STABLE RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Hospital Auxiliary ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BABY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Ee Murry Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc
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 Christian Word Ministries 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.