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Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc
The honorable order of kentucky colonels, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k261 grants · $1.3M
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Hope Initiative | $500,000 |
| Disaster Services Corporation SVDP-USA | $201,620 |
| Disaster Services Corporation SVDP-USA | $175,000 |
| Disaster Services Corporation SVDP-USA | $159,326 |
| Housing Oriented Ministries Established for Service Inc | $132,500 |
| The Hope Initiative | $125,000 |
| KCTCS | $100,000 |
| New Lease on Life Inc | $100,000 |
| Mayfield Graves LTRG Inc | $100,000 |
| Housing Development Alliance | $97,932 |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation - St James AME Church | $71,000 |
| Camp GRAVES | $69,000 |
| Housing Oriented Ministries Established for Service Inc | $52,000 |
| United Helping Hand of Pikeville DBA Pike County Relief Services | $50,000 |
| Bluegrass Center for Autism | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
370 repeat relationships — 204 still active in FY2024, 166 since wound down; 137 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- KCKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $660k · revenue +382% · 34% of their budget
- HOHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC6× · 2019–2024 · $381k · revenue +428%
- HDHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $313k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- COCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- KHKENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -12%
- RCRELEVANT CHURCH KY INCone grant, 2022 · $210k
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 advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
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,…
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
None
This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.
Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
To provide affordable housing and financing to low income families.
Provide low cost housing in cave run lake area of ky
To provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation-developmental disability services that promote the health and quality of life of our community members.
The mission of the Organization is to provide sustainable, affordable, safe, energy efficient and dry housing to moderate, low and very low income families and individuals of Harlan, Bell and Leslie Counties of Kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Open Arms 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
609 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. 609 of the 685 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYFIELD GRAVES LTRG INC ↗
- Who funds DISASTER SERVICES CORPORATION-SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL USA ↗
- Who funds CAMP GRAVES ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAYFIELD LIONS CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Missions ↗
- Who funds HAPPY FEET EQUALS LEARNING FEET INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds Confrontation Point Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RIVER COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HELPING HANDS OF PIKEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LEASE ON LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds SOS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOME FOR THE AGED OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RAPE VICTIM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds POST CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Cralle Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
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 Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels 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.