· Public charity
Civitan Club of Owensboro Kentucky Inc
The mission of civitan is to build good citizenship by providing a volunteer organization dedicated to serving individuals, community and human needs with an emphasis on helping people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and humanitarian needs, many of whom are members of our local club.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $126,876 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $137,876 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS 5000 | $48,776 |
| OPPORTUNITY CENTER OF OWENSBORO | $15,000 |
| VETERANS EMPOWERED TOGETHER | $14,100 |
| HUGH E SANDEFUR TRAINING CENTER | $12,000 |
| HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO | $12,000 |
| VINE GROVE O'BORO APPALACIAN RELIEF | $7,000 |
| ST JOSEPH 'S PEACE MISSION | $6,000 |
| MY SISTER'S KEEPER | $6,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY SERVICES | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PPPUZZLE PIECES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +208%
- WFWENDELL FOSTER'S CAMPUS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC3× · 2020–2023 · $26k · revenue +46%
- GRGREEN RIVER ASSET BUILDING COALITION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- LRLIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY & 5 STAR ROOFINone grant, 2023 · $11k
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF OWENSBOROone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SPST PIUS X CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
It is our mission to nuture an environment where individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are valued, provided opportunities, and treated with god's love and compassion.
Vocational and educational services
The organization provides opportunities for growth, independence, and fulfillment for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by offering a loving, nurturing, and affordable residential community, along with structured…
Provided services for adults with disabilities ages 18 and above. We provide training and preparation, on the job training, and, job search assistance
Our own home's mission is to provide life enriching opportunities for those with disabilities as well as those recovering from drug and alcohol dependency, by offering housing, life skills, employment services,and educational services with…
Abilities richmond envisions a world where all individuals with developmental disabilities and other barriers will have the opportunity to participate in a full range of life activities. competitive employment in support of this vision.
Marys house mission is to provide transitional living environment which provides residential care, individual and group counceling, assessment
To provide vocational development, developmental equipment and social/personal adjustment programs to mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed and physically handicapped adults.
To provide services for the developmentally disabled
To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity Center of Owensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Marc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 HELP OFFICE OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds PUZZLE PIECES INC ↗
- Who funds HUGH SANDEFUR TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VETERAN EMPOWERED TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH PEACE MISSION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WENDELL FOSTER'S CAMPUS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN RIVER ASSET BUILDING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM RIDERS OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS KEEPER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY CENTER OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MARC INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CIVITAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Owensboro Health Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Greenwell Foundation Inc · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Lawrence & Augusta Hager Educational Foundation Inc · Impact 100 - Owensboro Inc · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc
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 Civitan Club of Owensboro Kentucky 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.