· Private foundation
Crutcher Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Crutcher Family Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Crutcher Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 37 organizations, $408k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k51 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF KY | $50,000 |
| LOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| TOWNBRANCH COMMONS PROJECT | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SHAKER VILLAGE OF PLEASANT HILL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| VIPASSANA COMMUNITY FNDN | $10,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BERHEIM ARBORETUM & RESEARCH FOREST | $10,000 |
| CASA OF LEXINGTON | $10,000 |
| SHADOW'S FUND | $8,500 |
| BLUE GRASS CHARITY FDN | $6,500 |
| GOD'S PANTRY | $6,500 |
| GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
62 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2021, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- LCLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC5× · 2017–2021 · $168k · revenue +87%
- SASHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +39%
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE5× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY - CRUTCHER PRESERVE UPKEEPone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CNCATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTERone grant, 2019 · $5k
- WHWALNUT HILL HISTORIC FNDNone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
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.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Legacy greenscapes, inc. mission is to provide continuing leadership and financial support to preserve legacy of and promote greenscapes located in the city of winchester, clark county, ky.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
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…
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
The ashland terrace staff and board of directors are dedicated to providing a secure, friendly, affordable home to women sixty years and older. as a congregate senior living community, ashland terrace strives to nurture residents…
Kentucky harvest's purpose is to end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Spay Neuter Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 90 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 BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds SHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vipassana Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS CHARITY FOUNDATION INC FKA BLUEGRASS CHARITY BALL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds CARE4Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds PARIYATTI ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OPERA HOUSE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Seedleaf Inc ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation 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 Crutcher Family Foundation 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.