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Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$73kPhilanthropy$47kArts & Culture$24kRecreation & Sports$23kInternational$16kHealth$12kCivil Rights$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FOSTER SUCCESS: $100 → 16%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $1k → 24%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $50 → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $4k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $3k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES: $500 → 15%ORCHID HOUSE: $250 → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $3k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $3k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $2k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
CA
KY
NC
DC
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$175k · 19 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

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

19
40

Total granted

$175k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+11%

Still filing today

58%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • WH
    WORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +119%
  • LI
    LEXARTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • LR
    Lyndon Recreation Association Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -21%
  • CH
    Commonwealth Health Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +27%
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
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

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

Public Benefit
2
Commerce Lexington Inc

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

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3
Kentucky Bankers Association

To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…

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4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.

Employment
6
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
7
Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International
8
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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9
Civiclex Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Louisville Foundation Inc

Identify, mobilize, and fund programs to address louisville's greatest challenges regarding business growth and increased economic prosperity for all citizens in the greater louisville region.

Community Improvement
11
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
12
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Lawrence and Blanche Hughes Foundation 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

47 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. 47 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
25/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATIO…THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 · EducationTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC+3 more: $1,600 · EducationUNITED WAY - LOUISVILLE METRO: $20,160 · OtherUNITED WAY - LOUISVILLE METROGLEANKY: $11,520 · OtherGLEANKYIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientURBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON: $5,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTONKENTUCKY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherKENTUCKY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALAMERICAN RED CROSS - KENTUCKY: $3,730 · Other+43 more: $23,020 · Other+43 moreTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTOWN BRAN…+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $16,730 · Human ServicesUNITED WA…CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN…+4 more: $900 · Human ServicesLEXARTS INC: $8,620 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,440 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $1,300 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $700 · Arts & CultureWORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS INC: $15,730 · InternationalJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc: $750 · International+1 more: $250 · InternationalUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $5,850 · PhilanthropyWILLIAM LAWRENCE AND BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $2,100 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $1,800 · Philanthropy+2 more: $200 · Philanthropy
Education$71,600Other$75,930Recreation & Sports$20,100Human Services$18,630Arts & Culture$18,060International$16,730Philanthropy$12,450

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $16,730 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS INC: $15,730 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetLEXARTS INC: $8,620 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,440 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $5,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM LAWRENCE AND BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommonwealth Health Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEAN KENTUCKY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCURE CF INC: $2,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RACE FOR EDUCATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHonor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCAPA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMPLIFY LOUISVILLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF THE KENTUCKY SOCIETY OF CPAS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetORCHID HOUSE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER SUCCESS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY JUSTICE ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD HEALTH IDEAS INC DBA COLON CANCER PREVENTION PROJECT: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARC OF APPALACHIA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GREAT PYRENEES RESCUE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUND WELFARE FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodford Humane Society Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $50 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 …Baird Foundation IncHonorable Order of Ke…The Community Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Mt Brilliant Fami…American Water Charit…Cralle Foundation IncRepublic Bank Foundat…Nisource Charitable F…The HEP Foundation Bu…The Gheens Foundation…
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY32.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · The Gheens Foundation Inc

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 Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 76 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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