How much did DEAN DORTON ALLEN FORD CHARITABLE grant in FY2025?

Education$71kRecreation & Sports$20kHuman Services$19kArts & Culture$17kInternational$17kPhilanthropy$7kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$2kAnimals$650Other$78k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

educationlexington

2021

youth

2022

lexington

2023

—

2024

—

2025

way greater

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $29k
$10k–50k2 grants · $30k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$33k

Total assets

Largest grants

THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$5,850
TOWN BRANCH PARK$5,000
KENTUCKY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,500
WILLIAM LAWRENCE & BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION$2,500
UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS$2,200
METRO UNITED WAY$2,100
GLEAN KENTUCKY INC$2,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA$1,800
ARTSWAVE$1,300
KYCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$1,000
FUND FOR THE ARTS$950
LEXARTS$700
AMPLIFY LOUISVILLE INC$500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$175k · 19 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$175k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-20%

+60%

Still filing today

47%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHealthOther

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

TB
TOWN BRANCH PARK
4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +4%
WH
WORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS
3× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +79%
L
LEXARTS
6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +35%

Funded once

UL
URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON
one grant, 2020 · $5k
LR
LYNDON RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -21%
MH
MEDCENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Way of Kentucky Inc

As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.

Philanthropy

Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky

—

Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit

Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Louisville public media (lpm) is an independent, community-supported nonprofit serving our community on the web, on the radio, through podcasts and community events. lpm includes three public radio stations and an investigative unit.

Arts & Culture

Kentucky College of Art Design

The kentucky college of art and design promotes a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.

Education

Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc

Heart of kentucky united way advances the common good by creating opportunities for a better life for all.

—

Kentucky Bankers Association

Kentucky bankers association, a non-profit organization, provides information on banking trends and developments to member banks.

—

Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates Inc

To assist at risk students to graduate from high school and successfully transition to work or further education

Education

Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

To help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life through job creation, placement, addressing barriers to employment, and other training.

Employment

American Dairy Association of Kentucky

Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.

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Kentucky Bar Association

Implement, administer and enforce kentucky supreme court rules regarding the discipline and education of the attorneys of kentucky

—

Kentucky Tennis Association Inc

To promote the development of tennis as a means of healthful recreation and physical fitness in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Lawrence and Blanche Hughes. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/40

the rest of the field

11%

1,600/14,043

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.

05the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

26/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$83,630Education$71,100Recreation & Sports$20,100Human Services$18,580Arts & Culture$16,760International$16,730Philanthropy$6,600

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.

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.

Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation Of · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Baird Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville

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 organisation DEAN DORTON ALLEN FORD CHARITABLE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~52 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +79% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 263822633 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 52 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable?

Find your warmest path to Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DEAN DORTON ALLEN FORD CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable?

More from the funding graph

DEAN DORTON ALLEN FORD CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable?

More from the funding graph