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Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc

Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$432k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$3.9MCrime & Legal$625kFood & Nutrition$485kCivil Rights$351kEducation$267kArts & Culture$165kPhilanthropy$104kCommunity Improvement$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k35 grants · $854k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $432k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH$432,052
QUEER KENTUCKY$200,967
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$133,891
COMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE$115,000
KET$100,000
KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES$100,000
KENTUCKY EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER$100,000
STERLING HEALTH CARE$99,996
SOMALI COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE$80,220
LOUISVILLE PRIDE FOUNDATION$75,000
CHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW$52,000
RECOVERY CAFE LEXINGTON$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE$45,000
SUPPORT AGENCY$42,200
KENTUCKY PSYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$30,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CAREUSTZ: $25k → 18%CAREUSTZ: $25k → 18%CAREUSTZ: $17k → 18%LA CASITA CENTER: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 23 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
23

Total granted

$4.7M
$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+67%

Still filing today

91%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $851k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • KV
    KENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +186% · 45% of their budget
  • OO
    OFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $575k · revenue +60%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $475k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2021 · $62k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -26%
  • CG
    CATCH Global Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $58k · revenue -16%

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.

1
Greater Louisville Behavior Health Center

The mission of Greater Louisville Behavioral Health is to provide services surrounding behavioral health and substance abuse, especially to those in the criminal justice system

Human Services
2
Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville
Health
3
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
4
Mental Health Association of Kentucky Inc

To improve the accessibility and quality of mental health and substance use services through advocacy with local, state and federal policy-makers, education of the public and promotion of research-based practices among providers

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5
Louisville Recovery Community Connections Inc

We engage our community and build meaningful relationships by supporting organizations, individuals, families, and sustaining recovery. increasing public awareness and decrease stigmas and injustices through support services, education,…

Health
6
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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7
Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc

Part III - Organizations MissionTo create broad-based and inclusive participation in a health justice movement in Kentucky that will lead to an increase and improvement in access, quality and scope of accurate and culturally relevant…

Health
8
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
9
Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation
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10
Kentucky River Community Care Inc

The Organization provides mental/development disability and drug and alcohol rehabilitation services to an eight-county area in Southeastern Kentucky. During the year, approximately 9,667 people benefited from this program.

Health
11
Metro Louisville Harm Reduction Task Force

The mission of the coalition is to reduce substance abuse overdoses and deaths, the stigma associated with addiction, and to offer harm reduction solutions which include improving public health in kentucky.

Education
12
University Health Care Inc

University health cares mission is to promote the health of medicaid recipeients in the commonwealth of kentucky. its contract with the commonwealth has not renewd. its assets were aquired by another managed care organization, and the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Voices for Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is People Advocating Recovery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySubstance Abuse & Mental He…Education Advocacy & AccessChild Abuse Prevention & Ad…Pregnancy & Women's Health …Emergency Assistance & Food…Thoroughbred Horse Industry…Regional Economic Developme…Kentucky Health Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%15%<5yr14%23%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr18%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%17%5–10yr18%32%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr18%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
12%
2,432/20,248

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 72 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
31/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC — $1,379,552 · HealthKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INCSTERLING HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC — $99,996 · HealthRECOVERY CAFE LEXINGTON INC — $75,000 · Health+13 more — $430,662 · Health+13 moreQueer Kentucky Inc — $422,901 · Arts & CultureQueer Kentucky I…COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC — $350,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH FUN…KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY PUBLIC …+3 more — $55,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC — $575,000 · Crime & LegalOFFICE OF KE…NEW LEGACY REENTRY CORP — $50,000 · Crime & LegalNEW LEGACY R…NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC — $475,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …ESPERANZA LATINO CENTER OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC — $90,000 · Community ImprovementESPERANZA …+2 more — $15,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $221,016 · EducationUniversity…Somali Community Of Louisville Inc — $80,220 · EducationSomali Com…CHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW — $64,000 · EducationCHANGE TOD…UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…CATCH Global Foundation — $57,600 · EducationCATCH Glob…Appalachian Kentucky Health Care Access Network Inc — $27,000 · EducationFOUR RIVERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $19,075 · Education+2 more — $13,000 · EducationKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC — $416,057 · Civil RightsKENTUCKY …LOUISVILLE PRIDE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsLOUISVILL…RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $133,891 · OtherRECTOR & VISITOR…UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — $61,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CI…CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $30,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $148,838 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FO…Community Agenda for Regained Empowerment — $67,110 · OtherCommunity Agenda…JOSHUA COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INC — $50,000 · OtherJOSHUA COMMUNITY…THE HOPE CENTER INC — $70,000 · OtherTHE HOPE CENTER …+24 more — $317,000 · Other+24 more
Health$1,985,210Arts & Culture$877,901Crime & Legal$650,000Community Improvement$580,000Education$566,911Civil Rights$516,057Other$878,639

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC — $1,379,552 over 5y, 45% of budgetOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC — $575,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC — $475,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetQueer Kentucky Inc — $422,901 over 2y, 58% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC — $416,057 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC — $350,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $221,016 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $148,838 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISVILLE PRIDE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSTERLING HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC — $99,996 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetESPERANZA LATINO CENTER OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC — $90,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetSomali Community Of Louisville Inc — $80,220 over 1y, 24% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE LEXINGTON INC — $75,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Agenda for Regained Empowerment — $67,110 over 3y, 27% of budgetCHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW — $64,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATCH Global Foundation — $57,600 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJOSHUA COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW LEGACY REENTRY CORP — $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE LEXINGTON INC — $49,952 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE ADVOCATING RECOVERY INC — $49,252 over 2y, 10% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $44,258 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF NKY & SW OH — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAppalachian Kentucky Health Care Access Network Inc — $27,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHANNAHS CROWN CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUR RIVERS SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBLUEGRASS HARM REDUCTION ALLIA — $25,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetCPESN KENTUCKY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGRANNYS GIRLS BIRTH INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetProject Ricochet Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOTEL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNAMI KENTUCKY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetTHE BLACK SOIL CHARITABLE FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $19,075 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKENTUCKY HORTICULTURE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBIG SANDY HEALTH CARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedia In The Public Interest — $8,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLexington Community Radio Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

The Community Foundat…Blue Grass Community …The Gheens Foundation…Honorable Order of Ke…The Community Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …Metro United Way IncLG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Sociable Weaver Found…The Whas Crusade for …The Kentucky Bar Foun…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY33.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Kentucky Bar Foundation 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 Foundation for a Healthy 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    11report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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