· Public charity
Feeding Kentucky Inc
To end hunger in collaboration with kentucky's feeding america food banks and partners, through advocacy and resource development.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $671k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMONWEALTH OF KY KKY DEPA | $3,782,590 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $261,200 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $197,692 |
| KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU INSURANC | $181,269 |
| KENTUCKY CABINET FOR HEALTH A | $109,231 |
| FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION CENTER | $95,220 |
| FARM CREDIT MID AMERICA | $87,583 |
| COMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE | $27,700 |
| KY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE & R | $15,000 |
| ENBRIDGE | $15,000 |
| ANONYMOUS | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KCTCS | $10,000 |
| AETNA | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M 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
- FAFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC6× · 2018–2024 · $535k · revenue +55%
- GPGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC6× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +97%
- PAPURCHASE AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC6× · 2018–2024 · $198k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- KCKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -35%
- GPGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANKone grant, 2017 · $22k
- BCBOYD COUNTY SCHOOLS2× · 2020–2021 · $18k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing Hunger Foodbank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 48 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 FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PURCHASE AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds Food Research & Action Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds OFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS 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: Share Our Strength · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Feeding America · AARP Foundation · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Kroger Co Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Feeding Kentucky 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.