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Henry Davidson Fitzpatrick Jr Char Tr

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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$30kReligion$28kHuman Services$10kAnimals$8kArts & Culture$7kFood & Nutrition$7kCrime & Legal$5kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,750
Median grant
3
States reached
$291k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESTONSBURG FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$6,500
CENTRE COLLEGE$3,250
WEST END UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$2,500
THE OAK HILL SCHOOL$2,000
THE METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY$2,000
GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK$2,000
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$1,750
ST VINCENT MISSION$1,500
DEWEY DAM DOG AND CAT PROTECTION SOCIETY$1,000
MIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION INC$1,000
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY$1,000
APPALRED LEGAL AID$1,000
CHEEKWOOD$500
EMT SCHOLARSHIP FUND CO PEOPLE'S BANK FOUNDATION$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY: $2k → 10%KENTUCKY UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOMES: $2k → 12%CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS: $1k → 15%ST VINCENT MISSION: $2k → 35%THE METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY: $2k → 10%ST VINCENT MISSION: $1k → 35%THE METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY: $2k → 10%ST VINCENT MISSION: $500 → 35%THE METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY: $1k → 10%ST VINCENT MISSION: $250 → 35%THE METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY: $1k → 10%THE METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY: $1k → 10%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114k · 16 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
25

Total granted

$114k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+29%

Still filing today

69%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • CC
    CENTRE COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +53%
  • MH
    METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +142%
  • GP
    GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +97%
  • AR
    Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $856 · revenue +29%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $500
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
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
2
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
3
Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health
4
Appalachian Investment Corporation

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

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5
Claiborne Medical Center

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.

Health
6
North Fork Valley Community Health Board Inc

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.

—
7
Ccmh Corporation

Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.

Health
8
Roane County Medical Center

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.

Health
9
American Dairy Association of Kentucky

Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.

—
10
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
11
Baptist Healthcare System Inc

The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…

Health
12
LeConte Medical Center

LeConte 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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESTONSBURG FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $27,700 · OtherPRESTONSBURG FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 · OtherGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INCOAK HILL SCHOOL: $8,681 · OtherOAK HILL SCHOOLMIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $6,250 · OtherMIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION INCWEST END METHODIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherWEST END METHODIST CHURCHAPPALRED LEGAL AID: $3,150 · Other+25 more: $10,556 · Other+25 moreCENTRE COLLEGE: $18,450 · EducationCENTRE COLLEGEWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $8,100 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLThe Madeira School: $2,000 · EducationThe Madeira SchoolMETHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY INC: $9,750 · Human ServicesMETHODIST HO…ST VINCENT MISSION INC: $3,250 · Human ServicesST VINCENT M…THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $1,100 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN…Dewey Dam Dog & Cat Protection Society Inc: $7,500 · AnimalsFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $250 · PhilanthropyCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $2,310 · Arts & CultureWAYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $250 · Arts & CultureAppalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc: $856 · Crime & LegalAPPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC: $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$70,337Education$28,550Human Services$14,100Animals$7,500Philanthropy$2,750Arts & Culture$2,560Crime & Legal$1,356

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 budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $18,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY INC: $9,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOAK HILL SCHOOL: $8,681 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $8,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDewey Dam Dog & Cat Protection Society Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION INC: $6,250 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetST VINCENT MISSION INC: $3,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $2,310 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Madeira School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc: $856 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN HOSPICE CARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODS APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $250 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.

  • 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 WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Dewey Dam Dog & Cat Protection Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds The Madeira School ↗
  • 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 KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN HOSPICE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds GODS APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗

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 Foundation IncKY19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Henry Davidson Fitzpatrick Jr Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Davidson Fitzpatrick Jr Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Henry Davidson Fitzpatrick Jr Char Tr through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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

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