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Feeding Kentucky Inc

To end hunger in collaboration with kentucky's feeding america food banks and partners, through advocacy and resource development.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,782,590
Organizations funded a year
2 to 19
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Feeding Kentucky Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$4.8M94%
FY20247$155k0%
FY20236$183k17%
FY20228$649k13%
FY202116$387k25%
FY202019$208k89%
FY20182$116k50%
FY20178$97kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.9MFood & Nutrition$2.5MEducation$105kPublic Benefit$25kCrime & Legal$15kEnvironment$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc$534,95261%
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc$295,07060%
Share Our Strength$261,20010%
Feeding America$197,69210%
Purchase Area Development District Inc$197,54561%
Food Research & Action Center$95,2201n/a
Community Farm Alliance Inc$87,70025%
Tri-State Food Bank$76,99060%
Dare to Care Inc$74,08560%
Paducah Public Schools$38,0002n/a
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All grantees of Feeding Kentucky Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc$534,95261%
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc$295,07060%
Share Our Strength$261,20010%
Feeding America$197,69210%
Purchase Area Development District Inc$197,54561%
Food Research & Action Center$95,2201n/a
Community Farm Alliance Inc$87,70025%
Tri-State Food Bank$76,99060%
Dare to Care Inc$74,08560%
Paducah Public Schools$38,0002n/a
Freestore Foodbank Inc$30,37160%
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc$25,00011%
Thelma B Johnson Early Learning Ctr$22,0432n/a
Berea College$18,19320%
Foodchain Inc$17,31621%
Facing Hunger Foodbank Inc$15,16360%
Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs Inc$15,00011%
Jessamine County Schools$13,2262n/a
Kceoc Community Action Partnership Inc$5,45020%

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Feeding Kentucky Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc: $534,952 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGod's Pantry Food Bank Inc: $295,070 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetShare Our Strength: $261,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $197,692 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurchase Area Development District Inc: $197,545 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Farm Alliance Inc: $87,700 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTri-State Food Bank: $76,990 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDare to Care Inc: $74,085 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFreestore Foodbank Inc: $30,371 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBerea College: $18,193 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoodchain Inc: $17,316 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFacing Hunger Foodbank Inc: $15,163 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOffice of Kentucky Legal Services Programs Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKceoc Community Action Partnership Inc: $5,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Share Our StrengthDC18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Feeding Kentucky Inc

How much does Feeding Kentucky Inc give?
Feeding Kentucky Inc reported 17 grants totaling $2,320,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Feeding Kentucky Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (60%), Food & Nutrition (38%), Education (2%).
Who are Feeding Kentucky Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc ($535k), God's Pantry Food Bank Inc ($295k), Share Our Strength ($261k).
Does Feeding Kentucky Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Feeding Kentucky Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Share Our Strength, Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Feeding America.
Where is Feeding Kentucky Inc based?
Feeding Kentucky Inc is based in KY.

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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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