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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.

$179k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Community Improvement$34kRecreation & Sports$27kPhilanthropy$20kFood & Nutrition$14kArts & Culture$10kHuman Services$10kReligion$10kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $123,336, the rows itemized in this filing. The $178,644 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,308 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $101k
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$183k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REPLENSIH FOUNDATION - GENEROSITY FEEDS LEXINGTON$26,936
LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES$13,595
MARK STOOPS FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
PAPAL MISSIONARY OF MERCY$10,000
CLARK FAMILY CHARITY$10,000
COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC$10,000
WOODFORD COUNTY ATHLETICS$10,000
BLUEGRASS BOYS RANCH$10,000
KERRINGTON'S HEART$8,025
BIRDS NEST ATHLETICS$7,500
LEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$7,280
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%REPLENSIH FOUNDATION - GENEROSITY FEEDS LEXINGTON: $8k → 15%TOWN BRANCH PARK: $9k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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
Columbus Chapel-Boalsburg Estate
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2
Baptist Healthcare System Inc

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,…

Health
3
Texas Girls and Boys Ranch

Sharing jesus, healing hearts, transforming lives.

Human Services
4
Cedaridge Inc

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.

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5
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Kentucky High School Athletic Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Claiborne Medical Center

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.

Health
8
Brad Keselowskis Checkered Flag Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Lexington Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Our Big Sky Ranch
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11
Wears Valley Ranch Inc

Promote the spiritual, emotional intellectual, social, and physical development of children in need of a stronger family support system, through christ-centered home settings.

Human Services
12
Kentucky Blood Center Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Christian Academy; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
2/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Replenish Foundation: $34,436 · Community ImprovementReplenish FoundationLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $13,595 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INCBLUEGRASS BOYS' RANCH: $10,000 · Human ServicesBLUEGRASS BOYS' RANCHKERRINGTONS HEART INC: $8,025 · Human ServicesKERRINGTONS HEART INCMARK STOOPS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherMARK STOOPS FAMILY FOU…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF …CARDINAL CLUB ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $7,500 · OtherCARDINAL CLUB ATHLETIC…WOODFORD COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOO STER CLUB: $10,000 · EducationWOODFORD COUNT…LEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $7,280 · EducationLEXINGTON CHRI…CANDID: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $9,000 · Recreation & Sports
Community Improvement$34,436Human Services$31,620Other$27,500Education$17,280Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Recreation & Sports$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $13,595 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBLUEGRASS BOYS' RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOODFORD COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOO STER CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCANDID: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKERRINGTONS HEART INC: $8,025 over 1y, 10% of budgetLEXINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $7,280 over 1y, 0.0% 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 …Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Commonwealth Causes Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commonwealth Causes Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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