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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $671k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $261k → 14%ENBRIDGE: $15k → 14%TRIS-STATE FOOD BANK: $58k → 15%BOWLING GREEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $19k → 12%FREESTORE FOODBANK: $19k → 16%FACING HUNGER FOOD BANK: $8k → 19%FEEDING AMERICA: $198k → 14%KCTCS: $10k → 10%JESSAMINE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $13k → 12%KY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE & R: $15k → 13%COMMONWEALTH OF KY KKY DEPA: $3.8M → 14%GODS PANTRY FOOD BANK: $132k → 15%JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $12k → 15%MADISON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $47k → 16%HENDERSON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $16k → 17%WELLCARE OF KENTUCKY: $5k → 18%BOYD COUNTY SCHOOLS: $18k → 18%BUTLER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $10k → 19%PURCHASE AREA DEVELOPMENT DIS: $180k → 19%PERRY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $25k → 27%KCEOC COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 33%FOOD RESEARCH & ACTION CENTER: $95k → 14%TRI-STATE FOOD BANK: $11k → 15%BOWLING GREEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $10k → 12%FREESTORE FOODBANK: $6k → 16%KENTUCKY CABINET FOR HEALTH A: $109k → 14%GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK: $91k → 15%KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU INSURANC: $181k → 15%MADISON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $14k → 16%HENDERSON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $6k → 17%KENTUCKY POWER AEP: $10k → 18%PURCHASE AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $10k → 19%PERRY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $20k → 27%CANE KITCHEN: $12k → 29%GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK: $40k → 15%AETNA: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE: $60k → 16%GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK: $13k → 15%KROGER MID SOUTH REGIONAL OFF: $9k → 15%COMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE: $28k → 16%GODS PANTRY FOOD BAND: $10k → 15%KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY: $25k → 16%GODS PANTRY FOOD BAND: $8k → 15%GROW APPALACHIA: $12k → 16%FOODCHAIN: $17k → 15%BEREA COLLEGE: $6k → 16%KENTUCKY EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER: $15k → 15%GRAY CONSTRUCTION: $10k → 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.
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$1.6M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+22%

Still filing today

53%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $535k · revenue +55%
  • GP
    GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +97%
  • PA
    PURCHASE AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $198k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • KC
    KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -35%
  • GP
    GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2017 · $22k
  • BC
    BOYD COUNTY SCHOOLS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $18k
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
Feeding Kentucky Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
2
Glean Kentucky Inc

Glean kentucky nourishes kentucky's hungry by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh foods.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
5
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
6
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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7
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
8
Kentucky Harvest Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Feeding Pennsylvania

Feeding pennsylvania is the partner state association of feeding america food banks. it is our mission to promote and aid our members in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity for their communities and…

Philanthropy
10
Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition
11
Feeding Southwest Virginia

To provide food and other related products primarily to member agencies for distribution to those in need, and also for direct distribution.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing Hunger Foodbank Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 48 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMONWEALTH OF KY KKY DEPA: $3,782,590 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH OF KY KKY DEPAGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $295,070 · OtherGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INCSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $261,200 · OtherPURCHASE AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC: $197,545 · Other+33 more: $995,553 · Other+33 moreFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $534,952 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA …Feeding America: $197,692 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaFood Research & Action Center: $95,220 · Food & NutritionFood Research & …DARE TO CARE INC: $74,085 · Food & NutritionDARE TO CARE INC+2 more: $47,687 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC: $87,700 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitBEREA COLLEGE: $18,193 · EducationKCEOC COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,450 · EducationOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC: $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,531,958Food & Nutrition$949,636Community Improvement$87,700Public Benefit$25,000Education$23,643Crime & Legal$15,000

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

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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 StrengthBlue Grass Community …Feeding AmericaAARP FoundationThe Kroger Co Zero Hu…Honorable Order of Ke…The Kroger Co Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Feeding Kentucky Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feeding Kentucky Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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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