· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CATHOLIC ACTION CENTER | $20,000 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| BRICK BY BRICK MINISTRY | $18,000 |
| LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER | $15,000 |
| JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON | $15,000 |
| UK CHILDREN'S HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC | $15,000 |
| PISGAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| BLUEGRASS CHRISTIAN CAMP | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 117 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christian Word Ministries Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian Word Ministries Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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