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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 FY2024still arriving
90
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2024 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 90 grants below total $3,496,933, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,828,038 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,331,105 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
9
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Wounded Warrior Project$36,000
Buckhorn School$36,000
Pikeville Area Family YMCA$32,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Buladean Community Foundation: $6k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - KENTUCKY REGION: $50k → 15%DANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $22k → 35%Buckhorn Children & Family Services: $15k → 27%ONE HARLAN COUNTY: $30k → 27%St Vincent Mission: $83k → 35%Pikeville Area Family YMCA: $33k → 25%St Vincent Mission: $10k → 35%JUDI'S PLACE FOR KIDS: $25k → 25%Presbyterian Child Welfare Agency Inc: $10k → 27%EMERGENCY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $9k → 26%Buckhorn Children and Family Services: $6k → 27%BIG CREEK MISSIONS: $15k → 30%BIG CREEK MISSIONS: $10k → 30%Pike County Senior Citizens Program Inc: $8k → 25%REDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES INC: $97k → 27%Cowan Community Action Group Inc: $54k → 29%NEW BEGINNINGS LEARNING CENTER: $42k → 27%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $45k → 29%REDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES INC: $40k → 27%New Beginnings Center for Children and Families: $31k → 27%Redbud Financial Alternatives Inc: $30k → 27%NEW BEGINNINGS LEARNING CENTER: $25k → 27%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $20k → 29%Cowan Community Action Group Inc: $20k → 29%NEW BEGINNINGS CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $24k → 27%REDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES INC: $22k → 27%REDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES INC: $20k → 27%Redbud Financial Alternatives Inc: $20k → 27%NEW BEGINNINGS LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 27%Redbud Financial Alternatives Inc: $13k → 27%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $10k → 29%New Beginnings Center for Children and Families: $10k → 27%Cowan Community Action Group Inc: $7k → 29%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $5k → 29%American Red Cross Eastern Kentucky Chapter: $8k → 27%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 70 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
206

Total granted

$11M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+22%

Still filing today

61%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $726k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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

  • AC
    APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORE INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +291% · 100% of their budget
  • HD
    HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +180%
  • AS
    APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $880k · revenue -23%
  • CT
    Community Trust Bank
    one grant, 2022 · $342k
  • HO
    HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVICgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $325k · revenue +154%
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
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
2
Kentucky Industrial Development Council

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

Community Improvement
3
Faith Mountain Mission of Kentucky Inc
Youth Development
4
Central Kentucky Community Action Council Inc

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

Human Services
5
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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6
Disaster Readiness Center of West Kentucky Inc

Equip west ky communities for disasters

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Kentucky Rural Health Collaborative Inc

To provide relief for flood victims in eastern kentucky.

Health
8
Appalachian Community Development Core Inc

To provide supportive services to the operations of Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky, Inc., a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code

Philanthropy
9
Kentucky Habitat for Humanity Inc

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…

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10
Eky Heritage Foundation Inc

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

Community Improvement
11
The Center for Rural Development Inc

To provide economic development to southeastern kentucky.

Community Improvement
12
Gpedc Inc

None

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of West Kyinc; 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.
04the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 327 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
67/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $551,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRONTIER HOUSING INC: $445,949 · OtherFRONTIER HOUSING INCCommunity Trust Bank: $342,439 · OtherCommunity Trust BankAppalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc: $219,498 · Other+146 more: $4,558,405 · Other+146 moreHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $1,545,066 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING DEVELOPMENT AL…APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $1,002,800 · Housing & ShelterAPPALACHIA SERVICE PRO…HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $325,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ORIENTED MINIS…PARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC: $235,000 · Housing & ShelterPARTNERSHIP HOUSING IN…+3 more: $98,012 · Housing & ShelterAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORE INC: $1,782,971 · PhilanthropyAPPALACHIAN COMMU…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC: $467,001 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDAT…+6 more: $198,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC: $350,000 · EducationFRANKLIN …RIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN TRAINING SCHOOL: $343,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE…APPALACHIAN EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK INC: $160,000 · EducationAPPALACHI…HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC: $114,079 · EducationHINDMAN S…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $90,600 · EducationALICE LLO…Abilene Christian School Inc: $60,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGE: $55,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Education+5 more: $86,500 · Education+5 moreTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $880,000 · Public Safety & DisasterKNOTT COUNTY LONG-TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC: $130,650 · Public Safety & DisasterPIKE COUNTY RELIEF SERVICES INC: $82,321 · Public Safety & Disaster+2 more: $50,480 · Public Safety & DisasterWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $252,000 · Human ServicesREDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES INC: $240,500 · Human ServicesCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $161,000 · Human ServicesNEW BEGINNINGS CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN: $147,175 · Human ServicesST VINCENT MISSION INC: $93,753 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $57,500 · Human Services+6 more: $155,640 · Human ServicesAPPALSHOP INC: $193,488 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureAPPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureWAYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $16,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,117,291Housing & Shelter$3,205,878Philanthropy$2,447,972Education$1,359,179Public Safety & Disaster$1,143,451Human Services$1,107,568Arts & Culture$439,488

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORE INC: $1,782,971 over 4y, 100% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $1,545,066 over 6y, 18% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $1,002,800 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $880,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC: $467,001 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFRONTIER HOUSING INC: $445,949 over 2y, 11% of budgetFRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC: $350,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE CHRISTIAN TRAINING SCHOOL: $343,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $325,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $252,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES INC: $240,500 over 7y, 59% of budgetPARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC: $235,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetAppalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc: $219,498 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $193,488 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $161,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetAPPALACHIAN EARLY CHILDHOOD NETWORK INC: $160,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN: $147,175 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetKNOTT COUNTY LONG-TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC: $130,650 over 2y, 35% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC: $129,659 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC: $125,315 over 4y, 11% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $125,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC: $114,079 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetAPPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INC: $105,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetST VINCENT MISSION INC: $93,753 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $90,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $84,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $80,488 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL: $75,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetFAITHLIFE MINISTRIES INC: $71,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetMARTHA MARY AND ME FOUNDATION INC: $64,764 over 2y, 43% of budgetSANDY VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $63,012 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetAbilene Christian School Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $57,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetONE EAST KENTUCKY CORPORATION ONE EAST KENTUCKY: $50,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCOAP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONCERNED LETCHER COUNTIANS: $40,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetTHE BERRY CHILDRENS CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC: $40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCITY OF PIKEVILLE EXPOSITION CENTER CORPORATION: $37,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEASTERN KENTUCKY CONCENTRATED EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM INC: $34,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC: $33,488 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPIKEVILLE AREA FAMILY YMCA INC: $32,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $30,480 over 1y, 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.

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 …Berea CollegeHonorable Order of Ke…Appalachian Regional …The Community Foundat…Federation of Appalac…The Community Foundat…Pallottine Foundation…Save The Children Fed…Flock IncJames Graham Brown Fo…Sociable Weaver Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report 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 327 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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