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Hilary Boone Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$903k
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$990kRecreation & Sports$935kHealth$630kArts & Culture$458kReligion$378kAnimals$223kHuman Services$166kEnvironment$135kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $495k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $301k
$8,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WINTERTHUR$25,000
FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION$25,000
LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY$23,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN$20,000
PAWS 4 THE CAUSE$20,000
HOUND WELFARE FUND$20,000
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 (FY20–21, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON FAYETTE CO: $10k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON FAYETTE CO: $10k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
DC
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 71 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
18

Total granted

$4.1M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+33%

Still filing today

59%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • LS
    LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $680k · revenue +34%
  • TB
    TOWN BRANCH PARK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +7%
  • LH
    LEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $220k · revenue +193% · 51% of their budget

Funded once

  • UM
    UK MARKEY CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • LP
    LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY - HEALTHCARE INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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2
Lexington Public Library

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…

Education
3
Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc

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.

Animals
4
Civiclex Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Washington and Lee University

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,…

Education
6
Horse Country Inc

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.…

Membership Benefit
7
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
8
Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Foundation Inc

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…

Animals
9
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
10
Liberty Hall Inc

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…

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11
Kentucky Thoroughbred Association Inc

To advertise, foster and promote the thoroughbred horse industry in the commonwealth of kentucky

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12
Kentucky Bar Association

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
41/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALNUT HILL CHURCH: $240,000 · OtherWALNUT HILL CHURCHMARKEY CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $181,000 · OtherMARKEY CANCER CENTER FOUNDATIONSALVATION ARMY: $146,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $84,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · Other+61 more: $1,145,000 · Other+61 moreTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $550,000 · Recreation & SportsTOWN BRANCH PARK INCUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES EQUESTRI…KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FO…LEXINGTON CHALLENGER TENNIS CHARITY INC: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsLEXINGTON CHALLENGER T…+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC: $680,000 · EducationLEXINGTON SCHOOL INCLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBR…HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $50,000 · EducationHORSE FARM WORKERS' E…THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $40,000 · Education+3 more: $19,000 · EducationLEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $220,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY AVIATION MUSEUM INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $123,000 · AnimalsHOUND WELFARE FUND INC: $70,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsPALLIUM INDIA INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $31,000 · HealthBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $6,000 · Health+1 more: $4,000 · HealthTHE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC: $81,000 · EnvironmentBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $51,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · Environment
Other$1,941,000Recreation & Sports$880,000Education$839,000Arts & Culture$352,500Animals$198,000Health$141,000Environment$134,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC: $680,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $550,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetLEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $220,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $123,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC: $81,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetHOUND WELFARE FUND INC: $70,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLEXINGTON CHALLENGER TENNIS CHARITY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $51,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPALLIUM INDIA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetAIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC: $37,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPAWS 4 THE CAUSE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBLUEGRASS COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BOOK PROJECT INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY AVIATION MUSEUM INC: $12,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHEADLEY-WHITNEY MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJourney Home Animal Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSECRETARIAT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEXARTS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 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 PALLIUM INDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …The Community Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Honorable Order of Ke…The Mt Brilliant Fami…Christian Word Minist…The Community Foundat…Keeneland Foundation …Elhapa Foundation IncAmerican Water Charit…Rosenstein Family Cha…The HEP Foundation Bu…
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY61.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hilary Boone Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hilary Boone Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 102 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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