· Private foundation
Henry Davidson Fitzpatrick Jr Char Tr
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESTONSBURG FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $8,500 |
| CENTRE COLLEGE | $3,200 |
| DEWEY DAM DOG AND CAT PROTECTION SOCIETY | $1,750 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK | $1,750 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $1,600 |
| THE OAK HILL SCHOOL | $1,600 |
| THE METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY | $1,500 |
| APPALRED LEGAL AID | $1,250 |
| ST VINCENT MISSION | $1,000 |
| WEST END UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| CHEEKWOOD | $500 |
| HOLSTON CONFERENCE | $500 |
| GOD'S APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP | $250 |
| FLOYD COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $250 |
| JULIE OSBORNE LESTER SCHOLARS - BIG SANDY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL | $250 |
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 (FY20–24, $11k) 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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CCCENTRE COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +53%
- MHMETHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +142%
- GPGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +97%
- ARAppalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $856 · revenue +29%
- ACAPPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -45%
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.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Appalachian investment corporation works to increase economic activity in the appalachian counties of kentucky.
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
To provide comprehensive and affordable primary health care and related services to the residents of perry, knott, letcher, breathitt, and leslie counties and the surrounding kentucky counties.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Rockcastle hospital is organized to provide medical care to members of its community. the hospital has a policy of accepting all patients within its primary service area regardless of ability to pay. mission: rockcastle hospital and…
Private Baptist College
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Middle Creek National Battlefield Foundation Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OAK HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Dewey Dam Dog & Cat Protection Society Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds GODS APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
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 · Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
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 Henry Davidson Fitzpatrick Jr Char Tr 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.
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