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Community Winterhelp Inc

Provides utility assistance to low-income families.

$250k
Granted FY2026still arriving
13
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.2MReligion$312kHousing & Shelter$84kEnvironment$13k
02FY2026 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $244,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $250,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 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 · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $236k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$91k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$25,000
EASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$23,250
FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$22,750
JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES$22,250
MINISTIRES UNITED OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISVILLE$21,250
SISTER VISITOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES$20,000
CENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$20,000
WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$17,250
HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$17,000
SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$16,250
SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES$16,000
ST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES$14,500
UNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES$8,500
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $798k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 11%Jeffersontown Area Ministries: $44k → 15%Jefferstown Area Ministries: $44k → 15%Jeffersontown Area Ministries: $27k → 15%JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES: $22k → 15%JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES: $17k → 15%JEFFERSONTOWN AREA UNITED MINISTRIE: $17k → 15%Jeffersontown Area Ministries: $8k → 15%Southwest Community Ministries: $24k → 15%Southwest Community Ministries: $20k → 15%Southwest Community Ministries: $20k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $16k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $15k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $14k → 15%Southwest Community Ministries: $8k → 15%Fern Creek Highview United Mininstries: $45k → 15%Fern Creek Highview United Ministries: $44k → 15%Fern Creek Highview United Ministries: $35k → 15%FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $23k → 15%FERN CREEKHIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRI: $19k → 15%FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $18k → 15%Fern Creek Highview United Ministries: $15k → 15%WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIE: $30k → 15%West Louisville Community Ministries: $29k → 15%WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $17k → 15%WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $17k → 15%West Louisville Community Ministries: $17k → 15%West Louisville Community Ministries: $17k → 15%West Louisville Community Ministries Inc: $9k → 15%SISTER VISITOR CENTER: $44k → 15%Sister Visitor Center Catholic Charities: $27k → 15%Sister Visitor Center Catholic Charities: $27k → 15%Sister Visitor Center Catholic Charities: $22k → 15%SISTER VISITOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 15%SISTER VISITOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 15%Sister Visitor Center Catholic Charities: $12k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 14 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$1.8M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FC
    FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES
    7× · 2017–2026 · $199k · revenue +2%
  • SL
    SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    7× · 2017–2026 · $197k · revenue +211%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC
    7× · 2017–2026 · $166k · revenue +290%

Funded once

  • SE
    SOUTH EAST ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -97%
  • MC
    MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • CK
    CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +12%
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.

04Its 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
Association of Community Ministries Inc

The association of community ministries (acm) is an umbrella organization bringing 13 louisville, kentucky-based community ministries together to serve residents on a neighborhood level. the acm network is proud to be a national model…

Religion
2
Community Ministries Inc Community Kitchen

Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.

Religion
3
Christian Action Ministries

Christian Action Ministries is a non-denominational local organization that is dedicated to providing short-term food assistance to individuals and families in Taney and Stone Counties in Missouri who are experiencing temporary crisis.

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4
Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…

Religion
5
Community Action of Southern Kentucky Inc

We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.

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6
Liberal Ministerial Alliance

Community service

Religion
7
Coordinated Assistance Ministries

Assistance ministry for those in need.

Human Services
8
Jefferson County Community Ministries Inc

Assistance to people in need

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9
Society of St Vincent De Paul St Bernard Conference

Through person - to - person service, st. vincent de paul council of northern kentucky provides emergency assistance and basis necessities to individuals and families struggling to make ends meet.

Human Services
10
Shelby County Outreach Ministries Inc

Community assistance for elderly and disadvantaged

Community Improvement
11
Hope Ministries of Northern Kentucky Inc

Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.

Human Services
12
Limestone County Churches Involved

To provide food and general assistance to individuals of Limestone County Alabama who are facing short term financial crisesTo mobilize churches of Limestone County to provide a prayerful way to meet the physical and spiritual needs of…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Area Community Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $196,863 · OtherSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $132,024 · OtherCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $131,789 · OtherEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIESM U S C L INC: $129,695 · OtherM U S C L INCHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $115,016 · OtherHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES: $80,255 · OtherST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIESUNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES INC: $71,282 · OtherUNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES INC+2 more: $22,478 · OtherFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES: $198,714 · Human ServicesFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIESJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC: $178,832 · Human ServicesJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $166,197 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INCWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $136,204 · Human ServicesWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCSouthwest Community Ministries: $118,132 · Human ServicesSouthwest Community Ministries+2 more: $6,256 · Human ServicesSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES: $122,920 · Housing & Shelter
Other$879,402Human Services$804,335Housing & Shelter$122,920

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES: $198,714 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $196,863 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC: $178,832 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $166,197 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $136,204 over 7y, 16% of budgetCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $132,024 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $131,789 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES: $122,920 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetSouthwest Community Ministries: $118,132 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $13,530 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH EAST ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES INC: $8,948 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $3,128 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $3,128 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.

  • Who funds FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Southwest Community Ministries ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH EAST ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL 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.

Metro United Way IncAssociation of Commun…The Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Kosair Charities Comm…The Gheens Foundation…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Dare to Care IncMeals on Wheels Ameri…
Metro United Way IncKY34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Metro United Way Inc · Association of Community Ministries Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dare to Care Inc · Meals on Wheels America

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 17 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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