· Community foundation
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc
Our mission is to be a catalyst for community collaboration and charitable giving; to create permanent endowment funds as a sustaining resource to improve quality of life and place in eastern Kentucky.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 90 grants below total $3,496,933 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,828,038 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,331,105 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $178k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k6 grants · $571k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Appalachian Community Development Core Inc | $1,544,071 |
| Appalachia Service Project | $201,600 |
| Frontier Housing Inc | $158,000 |
| Oakdale Christian Academy | $60,000 |
| Teach For America Appalachia | $51,000 |
| Appalachian Research & Defense Fund of Kentucky (AppalReD) | $50,536 |
| The Marshall University Foundation | $50,000 |
| Lowe's Home Improvement Store #1819 | $46,711 |
| City of Albany | $40,000 |
| Concerned Letcher Countians LLC | $40,000 |
| Martha Mary and Me Foundation | $38,103 |
| FaithLife Ministries Inc | $37,500 |
| Buckhorn School | $36,000 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | $36,000 |
| Pikeville Area Family YMCA | $32,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $888k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $726k 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
- ACAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORE INC4× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +291% · 100% of their budget
- HDHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +180%
- ASAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- TSTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $880k · revenue -23%
- CTCommunity Trust Bankone grant, 2022 · $342k
- HOHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVICgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $325k · revenue +154%
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.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.
Kentucky Habitat for Humanity's purpose is to work on a statewide level to create partnerships, financial resources, and educational programs to support the mission of building decent, affordable, and sustainable homes and communities for…
To provide economic development to southeastern kentucky.
To provide relief for flood victims in eastern kentucky.
Embracing our past, empowering our people, and unlocking our future by developing a tourism industry cluster, and revitalizing our communities in the coalfields of eastern kentucky
To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest
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,…
Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of West Kyinc and the most unlike its peers is Highway 7 Community Outreach Corporation. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
108 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. 108 of the 327 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN TRAINING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds REDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN ↗
- Who funds KNOTT COUNTY LONG-TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PIKE COUNTY RELIEF SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Berea College · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Appalachian Regional Healthcare · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Save The Children Federation Inc · Flock Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver 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 Appalachian 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.