How much did FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC grant in FY2024?

FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC reported 90 grants totaling $4,828,038 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC based?

FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC is based in KY.

FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC

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FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC

The primary purpose of the organization is to receive, hold, handle, administer, invest, and reinvest money and property of all kinds received by gift, devise, payments, bequest, or appointment, in trust or otherwise, for charitable purposes, primarily in, or for the benefit of, the people of southeastern Kentucky, including for such…

$4.8M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.5M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

exempt orgainzation

2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

—

2024

disaster relief

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $178k
$10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
$50k–250k6 grants · $571k
$250k+1 grant · $1.5M

$12,671

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
Concerned Letcher Countians LLC$40,000
City of Albany$40,000
Martha Mary and Me Foundation$38,103
FaithLife Ministries Inc$37,500
Wounded Warrior Project$36,000
Buckhorn School$36,000
Pikeville Area Family YMCA$32,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $821k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 53 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

168

Total granted

$12M

$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%

+20%

Still filing today

66%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther

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

PC
PHILANTHROPIC CAPITAL FUND FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY INC
4× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +291% · 100% of their budget
HD
Housing Development Alliance Inc
6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +127%
AS
Appalachia Service Project
2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +88%

Funded once

S
SBP
one grant, 2023 · $880k · revenue -6%
Community Foundation of West Kentuckygraduated
one grant, 2022 · $467k · revenue +220%
HI
HOMES Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $325k · revenue +244%

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.

Kentucky County Judgeexecutive Associat

Provide services to governmental agencies.

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Community Action Kentucky Inc

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

Community Improvement

Faith Mountain Mission of Kentucky Inc

Youth Development

Kentucky Industrial Development Council

Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.

Community Improvement

Kentucky Rural Health Collaborative Inc

Providing relief for flood victims in eastern kentucky.

Health

Kentucky Humanities Council Inc

The kentucky humanities council is dedicated to telling kentucky's story through programs and services that create a legacy of pride in the wealth of kentucky's culture, building civic engagement, and supporting local humanities programs…

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Kentucky Primary Care Association Inc

The association is charged with determining and promoting the mutual interests of its members, throughout the commonwealth, with a mission of promoting access to comprehensive, community-oriented primary health care services for…

Health

Appalachia Habitat for Humanity Inc

To build new homes and repair current homes for low income families at 0 interest

Housing & Shelter

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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Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc

The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.

Community Improvement

Kentucky Nonprofit Network Inc

Kentucky nonprofit network, inc. exists to serve, strengthen and advance kentucky's nonprofit organizations working to improve the quality of life in our commonwealth.

Education

Central Kentucky Community Action

This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berea College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/183

the rest of the field

11%

124/1,098

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.

05the grantee network

95 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

92/95

Grantees still filing

73/95

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,481,805Housing & Shelter$3,180,878Philanthropy$2,320,871Education$1,235,822Public Safety & Disaster$1,098,280Human Services$1,073,396Arts & Culture$439,488

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.

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.

Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels IncKY46.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Berea College · The Community Foundation of Louisville · The Community Foundation Of · Federation of Appalachian Housing · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington · Appalachian Regional Healthcare · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc · Flock 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PHILANTHROPIC CAPITAL FUND FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~72136 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821925378 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PHILANTHROPIC CAPITAL FUND FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 72136 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

95 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc?

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FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

95 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc?

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