· Public charity
Commonwealth Causes Inc
Commonwealth causes enhances the lives of kentuckians by utilizing pillars of the community to generate awareness regarding how to help those in need within the community while also inspiring donations to local charities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $123,336 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $178,644 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,308 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REPLENSIH FOUNDATION - GENEROSITY FEEDS LEXINGTON | $26,936 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES | $13,595 |
| MARK STOOPS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOODFORD COUNTY ATHLETICS | $10,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC | $10,000 |
| BLUEGRASS BOYS RANCH | $10,000 |
| CLARK FAMILY CHARITY | $10,000 |
| PAPAL MISSIONARY OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| KERRINGTON'S HEART | $8,025 |
| BIRDS NEST ATHLETICS | $7,500 |
| LEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $7,280 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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,…
Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.
Provide relief to empoverished persons in southeastern kentucky by providing food, clothing, home repairs, job skills training, and other services. entity assists churches and other organizations in the ministry of the gospel.
To serve those in need by acquiring and distributing food, grocery items, and government commodities through a network of charitable partnering agencies in 42 kentucky counties.
To organize, regulate and supervise all high school sports activities in kentucky. it will establish, promote and deliver the highest quality interscholastic programs and activities in an efficient and progressive manner that emphasizes…
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Promote the spiritual, emotional intellectual, social, and physical development of children in need of a stronger family support system, through christ-centered home settings.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Christian Academy and the most unlike its peers is Bluegrass Boys' Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 Replenish Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
- Who funds WOODFORD COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOO STER CLUB ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS BOYS' RANCH ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds KERRINGTONS HEART INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Commonwealth Causes 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.