Kentucky · 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.
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 90
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,671
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,544,071
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 145
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $33M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 87 | $3.4M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $4.7M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 145 | $4.4M | 81% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $950k | 74% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $964k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $821k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $381k | 61% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $622k | n/a |
93% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Housing & Shelter$4.0MEducation$3.0MCommunity Improvement$2.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.6MHuman Services$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$798kPublic Benefit$420kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
IL
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Community Development Core Inc | $1,782,971 | 4 | 100% |
| Housing Development Alliance Inc | $1,545,066 | 6 | 18% |
| Appalachia Service Project Inc | $1,002,800 | 2 | 6% |
| The St Bernard Project Inc | $880,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Frontier Housing Inc | $445,949 | 2 | 11% |
| Franklin Road Academy Inc | $350,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Riverside Christian Training School | $343,000 | 2 | 37% |
| Housing Oriented Ministries Established for Servic | $325,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $252,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Redbud Financial Alternatives Inc | $240,500 | 7 | 59% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Community Development Core Inc | $1,782,971 | 4 | 100% |
| Housing Development Alliance Inc | $1,545,066 | 6 | 18% |
| Appalachia Service Project Inc | $1,002,800 | 2 | 6% |
| The St Bernard Project Inc | $880,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Frontier Housing Inc | $445,949 | 2 | 11% |
| Franklin Road Academy Inc | $350,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Riverside Christian Training School | $343,000 | 2 | 37% |
| Housing Oriented Ministries Established for Servic | $325,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $252,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Redbud Financial Alternatives Inc | $240,500 | 7 | 59% |
| Partnership Housing Inc | $235,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc | $219,498 | 4 | 2% |
| Appalshop Inc | $193,488 | 5 | 3% |
| Cowan Community Action Group Inc | $161,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Appalachian Early Childhood Network Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 23% |
| New Beginnings Center for Children and Families In | $147,175 | 6 | 3% |
| Oakdale Christian Academy Inc | $145,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Knott County Long-Term Disaster Recovery Group Inc | $130,650 | 2 | 35% |
| Community Farm Alliance Inc | $129,659 | 4 | 4% |
| Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky Inc | $125,315 | 4 | 11% |
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hindman Settlement School Inc | $114,079 | 6 | 3% |
| Appalachian Artisan Center Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Breathitt County Long-Term Recovery Team | $104,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Arts Center | $93,956 | 3 | n/a |
| St Vincent Mission Inc | $93,753 | 2 | 8% |
| Alice Lloyd College | $90,600 | 2 | 0% |
| United Service Organizations Inc | $84,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pike County Relief Services Inc | $82,321 | 2 | n/a |
| Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc | $80,488 | 4 | 0% |
| Pine Mountain Settlement School | $75,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Faithlife Ministries Inc | $71,500 | 2 | 21% |
| Martha Mary and Me Foundation Inc | $64,764 | 2 | 43% |
| Sandy Valley Habitat for Humanity | $63,012 | 5 | 4% |
| Abilene Christian School Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $57,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Berea College | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Appalachian Community Fund | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| One East Kentucky Corporation One East Kentucky | $50,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Coap Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Southeast Education Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pikeville Fire Department | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Marshall University Foundation Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Perry Co Board of Education | $46,500 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Manchester | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hazardperry County Chamber of Commerce | $44,105 | 4 | n/a |
| Pathfinders of Perry County Inc | $40,118 | 3 | n/a |
| Concerned Letcher Countians | $40,000 | 1 | 50% |
| City of Albany | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Berry Childrens Center for Handicapped Children Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 12% |
| City of Pikeville Exposition Center Corporation | $37,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program Inc | $34,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Appalachian Citizens Law Center Inc | $33,488 | 1 | 2% |
| Pikeville Area Family YMCA Inc | $32,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Pikeville Main Street Program Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 32% |
| University of Maryland College Park | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Estill County 21st Century Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 38% |
| One Harlan County Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Clinton County Schools | $29,288 | 3 | n/a |
| Annville Institute Jackson County Ministries Inc | $26,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress | $26,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Judis Place for Kids Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Big Creek Missions | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Beattyville Housing Development Corporation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Daniel Boone Community Action Agenc | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Leslie Knott Letcher Perry Community Action Council Inc | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buckhorn Childrens Foundation Inc | $21,140 | 2 | 3% |
| Oak Tree Academy Incorporated | $20,500 | 2 | 8% |
| The David School Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Laurel County African American Heritage Center Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Corbin | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope for Tomorrow Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 93% |
| Jackson Independent School Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Davidson Baptist Church | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| East Kentucky Health Service Ctr In | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Community Agricultural and Nutritional Enterprises Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Lost Creek Volunteer Fire Dept | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lee Initiative Inc | $19,235 | 2 | 6% |
| Adams Plumbing & Heating | $18,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Floyd County School Board of Education | $17,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedar Inc | $16,750 | 2 | 9% |
| Twin Lakes Family Wellness Center | $16,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Wayland Historical Society Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Leatherwood Re-Enactment Corporation | $15,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Handfuls on Purpose | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Teach for America Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hemphill Community Center Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bobby Davis Museum and Park of Hazard and Perry County | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson County Development Association Inc | $14,937 | 1 | n/a |
| Pikeville Community Kitchen Inc | $14,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Highway 7 Community Outreach Corporation | $14,006 | 1 | n/a |
| Appalachian Pregnancy Care Centers Inc | $13,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Big Sandy College Educational Foundation Inc | $13,260 | 1 | 2% |
| Eastern Kentucky Pride Inc | $12,587 | 1 | 1% |
| Casa of the Appalachian Mountains | $11,565 | 1 | 6% |
| Kentucky River Regional Animal Shelter Society Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Tek Center Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Backroads of Appalachia | $11,000 | 1 | 1% |
| East Kentucky Dream Center Inc | $10,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Grace Covenant Ministries | $10,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson Wholesale Company Inc dba PDQ Sales & Service | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Waggin Tails Pet Resort LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clayhole Grocery | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| J&J Bates Trucking Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ratliff's Body Shop LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Baker Direct Medical Care | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Booms Beans LLC | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Hand in Hand Ministries Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Graphic Impressions | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Reynolds and Craft Land Corp | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thompson Scholars Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Liz Terry Photography | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Floyd County Homeless Shelter Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Knott Drug Abuse Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Campbell's Grocery | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Walters Service Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Presbyterian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Headwaters Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Southern Steel Recycling Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parthpihu Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| TACK for Life | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| County Line Community Church Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jaynes Family Practice LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gilley Enterprises | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberty Freewill Baptist Church Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Appalachian Propane Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casa of Knox and Laurel Counties Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Roundabout Music Company | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Interfaith of Breathitt County | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Garrett Auto Supplies LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scott's Service Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aspire Appalachia Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Joe's Drive-in Chicken | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Atomic Raid Arcade | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Appalachian Christian Academy | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hicks Brothers Construction LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Red Bird Mission Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Soldiers of Jesus Christincorporated | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hindman Floral | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 606 Holdings LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rustic Rooster Custom Metal | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson Propane Plus | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Superior Printing Company | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kceoc Community Action Partnership Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Holbrook Wood Products Inc DBA Roaring Shoals Farm | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kentucky Mist Moonshine | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kentucky Mountain Health Alliance I | $9,966 | 1 | 0% |
| Hazard Rotary Club Foundation Inc | $9,899 | 1 | 19% |
| Leslie County Public Library Foundation Inc | $9,899 | 1 | n/a |
| Whitesburg Rotary Foundation Inc | $9,899 | 1 | n/a |
| JJJ Holdings LLC dba The Butchers Pub | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Emergency Christian Ministries Inc | $8,600 | 1 | 10% |
| Leslie County Food Pantry | $8,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Breathitt County Community Health Foundation | $8,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Cameron Taylor Hoskins Foundation Inc | $8,173 | 1 | n/a |
| Route 7 Fitness | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Johnsons Custom Meats | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Shear Happiness On Main | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church of Whitesburg KY | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Hindman United Methodist Church | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Elkhorn Community Church | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Collins Auto Sales | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Kentucky River Child Advocacy Cente | $7,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Helping Hands of Phelps Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Coats for Kids Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Www LLC | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pike County Senior Citizens Program Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Stacy Plumbing | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Fellowship a Congregation of Grace Communion International | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dark Horse Art LLC | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bluegrass Solar Group LLC | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hindman Pig in a Poke LLC | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| James Croucher | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Horn Mountain Development DBA Codys Corner & Kristens Cafe | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Busy Bee's Flowers Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rudy's Bakery | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson County Christian Schools | $6,243 | 1 | n/a |
| Buladean Community Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
| University of Pikeville | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roll N Smoke BBQ | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Highlands Foundation Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Mountain Heritage Festival Committee Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 22% |
| Hazard Independent College Foundati | $5,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Hazard Independent Schools | $5,238 | 1 | n/a |
| Heritage Kitchen LLC | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Leslie County Fiscal Court | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jefferson Community & Technical College | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chavies First Church of God | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Perry County Economic Development | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kentucky Natural Lands Trust Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Perry County Fair Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
Plus 129 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 95.
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.
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY57.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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
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 Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc
- How much does Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc give?
- Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc reported 90 itemized grants totaling $3,496,933, out of $4,828,038 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 145 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (24%), Education (18%), Community Improvement (13%).
- Who are Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Appalachian Community Development Core Inc ($1.8M), Housing Development Alliance Inc ($1.5M), Appalachia Service Project Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Berea College, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc.
- Where is Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc based?
- Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc is based in KY.
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