· Public charity
Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc
Heart of kentucky united way advances the common good by creating opportunities for a better life for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $203,333 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $208,333 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $188k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $29,000 |
| CASA OF THE BLUEGRASS | $18,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF THE BLUEGRASS | $17,000 |
| GLADYS PROJECT | $17,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC | $15,000 |
| CASA OF LEXINGTON | $15,000 |
| GREEN HOUSE 17 | $15,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $13,333 |
| HAVEN CARE CENTER | $13,000 |
| NURSING HOME OMBUDSMAN AGENCY | $12,000 |
| CENTRO LATINO | $10,000 |
| DANVILLE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS CRADLE SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORP | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $438k · revenue +55%
- CACASA AT WOODLAWN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +54%
- KEKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEV CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $194k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- LCLincoln County Public Libraryone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BRBLUEGRASS RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC D/B/A AMPERSAND SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOURCEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +26%
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.
Empowering families through education so they can retain control by making informed decisions.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Provide a coordinated response to concerns of child abuse in a child-focused environment, offering prevention, evaluation and treatment to children and families.
Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.
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,…
Volunteers in action seeking safety and permanency for our community's youngest victims. casa provides support, advocacy, and intervention for abused, neglected, and dependent children in south central ky's family court system.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To provide a multi-disciplinary response to child victims of various types of abuse and neglect.
Advocate of child sexual abuse victims
The Organization's mission is to provide a multidisciplinary collaboration of services for the purpose of prevention, intervention, investigation, prosecution and treatment of child abuse. This effort reduces the potential for additional…
The child care council of kentucky is committed to supporting providers, empowering families and strengthening communities by expanding access to high quality child care resources, advocacy, and training.
To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Vista of the Bluegrass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Educational Dev Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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
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 BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CASA AT WOODLAWN INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEV CORP ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Family Services Association of Boyle County Inc ↗
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society ↗
- Who funds MERCER TRANSFORMATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE17 INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS TRACE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NURSING HOME OMBUDSMAN AGENCY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER AREA FAMILY EDUCATION AND WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC D/B/A AMPERSAND SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOURCE ↗
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 · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Heart of Kentucky United Way 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.
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.