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Gv Kentucky Foundation Inc Mng Agy

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Education$81kHealth$30kRecreation & Sports$27kReligion$27kHuman Services$26kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$16kArts & Culture$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$2,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Academy at Ocean Reef Inc$16,000
Woodberry Forest School$6,000
Helen James Foundation$6,000
Metropolitan Nursery School$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$3,000
Kentucky Educational Television Foundati$3,000
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio$3,000
World Central Kitchen Inc$3,000
Leeds Center for the Arts$2,000
Emmanuel Episcopal Church$2,000
World Class Accessibility Foundation$2,000
Vilar Performing Arts Center Inc$2,000
USA Triathlon Foundation$2,000
Ironcology II Inc$2,000
Church of the Nativity$2,000
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 (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPEWELL HEIGHTS COUNSELING: $2k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
NY
OH
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
FL

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$177k · 21 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
17

Total granted

$177k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • TA
    THE ACADEMY AT OCEAN REEF INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $56k · revenue +23%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +42%
  • WC
    WINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • GP
    GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • HH
    HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +15%
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Kentucky Harvest Inc

Kentucky harvest's purpose is to end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
4
Appalachian Investment Corporation

Appalachian investment corporation works to increase economic activity in the appalachian counties of kentucky.

5
Kentucky Bankers Association

To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…

6
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

8
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
9
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
10
The Ironman Foundation Inc

To leave ironman's legacy through philanthropy, volunteerism and grant making; by supporting various athletic, community, education, health, human services and public benefit non-profit organizations around the world.

Philanthropy
11
Journey Health Foundation

Convene passionate, collaborative partners to help build bold, data-driven systems and solutions that promote healthy communities for all

Human Services
12
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts OrganizationsGovernment Accountability R…Christian Missionary Organi…Youth Ice Hockey ProgramsLand Conservation Organizat…Youth Development CentersYmca Community CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Elementary Literacy TutoringSubstance Abuse TreatmentCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Food Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support OrganizationsNative Hawaiian Community D…
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,520

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

37 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
19/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ACADEMY AT OCEAN REEF INC — $56,000 · OtherTHE ACADEMY AT OCEAN REEF INCCHURCH OF THE NATIVITY — $6,000 · OtherEMMANUEL EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $6,000 · Other+32 more — $95,250 · Other+32 moreHELEN JAMES FOUNDATION — $16,250 · HealthHELEN JAMES FO…IRONCOLOGY II INC — $9,000 · HealthIRONCOLOGY II …SHEPHERD CENTER INC — $2,500 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTE…BROTHERS RUN FOUNDATION INC — $2,343 · HealthBROTHERS RUN F…OPERATION WALK CAROLINAS — $2,000 · HealthOPERATION WALK…MISSION LEXINGTON INC — $2,000 · HealthMISSION LEXING…World Class Accessibility Foundation — $9,000 · Recreation & SportsWorld Cla…USA Triathlon Foundation — $6,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA Triat…BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS — $4,000 · Recreation & SportsBIG CITY …Mountain Recreation Foundation — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsMountain …WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $7,000 · EducationHEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fund — $4,000 · EducationWINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $6,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureKEKAHU FOUNDATION INC DBA KKCR — $3,000 · Arts & CultureVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $12,500 · Food & NutritionHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$163,250Health$34,093Recreation & Sports$22,000Education$16,000Arts & Culture$14,000Food & Nutrition$12,500Philanthropy$11,000

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 budgetTHE ACADEMY AT OCEAN REEF INC — $56,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHELEN JAMES FOUNDATION — $16,250 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Class Accessibility Foundation — $9,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetIRONCOLOGY II INC — $9,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Triathlon Foundation — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BOOK PROJECT INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Recreation Foundation — $3,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEKAHU FOUNDATION INC DBA KKCR — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHERS RUN FOUNDATION INC — $2,343 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL HEIGHTS COUNSELING INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION WALK CAROLINAS — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMISSION LEXINGTON INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEGRASS RUNNERS CLUB INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKAUAI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVING RECOVERY TOGETHER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co USWI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Gv Kentucky Foundation Inc Mng Agy 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 56 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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