· Private foundation
Hilary Boone Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $495k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| UK MARKEY CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TOWN BRANCH PARK INC | $50,000 |
| WALNUT HILL CHURCH | $45,000 |
| LEXINGTON CHALLENGER TENNIS CHARITY | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES | $31,000 |
| FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION | $25,000 |
| WINTERTHUR | $25,000 |
| LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY | $23,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PAWS 4 THE CAUSE | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN | $20,000 |
| HOUND WELFARE FUND | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 12 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k 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
- LSLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $680k · revenue +34%
- TBTOWN BRANCH PARK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +7%
- LHLEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC4× · 2020–2023 · $220k · revenue +193% · 51% of their budget
Funded once
- UMUK MARKEY CANCER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY - HEALTHCARE INTEGRATIVE MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- LPLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +38%
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.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Our mission is to enrich and connect our community through welcoming spaces, engaged staff, diverse resources, and lifelong learning opportunities. we create a stronger community by meeting our customers where and how they need us and…
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
Horse country, inc. is a coordinated equine industry initiative to connect guests to the horse, land, and people of kentucky's signature equine industry through immerserive experiences at unique member locations. horse country, inc.…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
The mission of the organization is to educate the public by interpreting the life and time of senator john brown and his descendants. the organization will collect, document, preserve, conserve, and exhibit the social domestic, and…
To advertise, foster and promote the thoroughbred horse industry in the commonwealth of kentucky
To maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with the rules set forth by the kentucky supreme court and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Aviation Museum Inc. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 102 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 LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUND WELFARE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHALLENGER TENNIS CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PALLIUM INDIA INC ↗
- Who funds AIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds PAWS 4 THE CAUSE 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 · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Christian Word Ministries Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee
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 Hilary Boone Foundation 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.