· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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