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Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc

The honorable order of kentucky colonels, inc.

$4.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
358
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$4.8MHuman Services$3.8MHealth$2.7MHousing & Shelter$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.4MArts & Culture$1.4MEducation$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 358 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k261 grants · $1.3M
  • $10k–50k81 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
New Lease on Life Inc$100,000
Mayfield Graves LTRG Inc$100,000
KCTCS$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
Audubon Area Community Services$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%All God's Children: $23k → 12%Logan County Good Samaritan: $21k → 15%Helping Hands of Greenup County: $25k → 16%St Vincent Mission Inc: $25k → 35%Marshall County Exceptional Center: $19k → 13%Happy Feet Equals Learning Feet Inc: $25k → 17%Pillar: $31k → 4%Revive Ministries Inc: $16k → 12%Franklin County Council on Aging Inc: $25k → 14%HAPPY FEET EQUALS LEARNING FEET: $19k → 17%Pillar (formerly Apple Patch): $25k → 4%Happy Feet Equals Learning Feet Inc: $18k → 17%Crossroads Pregnancy Resource Center: $20k → 4%Happy Feet Equals Learning Feet Inc: $16k → 17%Hope's Place: $20k → 18%HOLLY HILL CHILDREN'S HOME: $29k → 10%Life Adventure Center: $27k → 10%Family Service Society: $24k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY: $16k → 15%Sheep Dog Impact Assistance Greater Cincinnati Chapter: $33k → 7%Children's Home of Northern Kentucky: $50k → 11%The Point Arc of Northern Kentucky Inc: $25k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $23k → 11%Christian Appalachian Project: $25k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KY: $20k → 11%Children's Home of Northern Kentucky: $16k → 11%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $19k → 15%Bluegrass Care Navigators: $19k → 15%Boys & Girls Haven Inc: $30k → 15%Boys and Girls Haven: $17k → 15%Boys and Girls Haven: $17k → 15%CASA of Lexington: $45k → 15%CASA of Lexington: $19k → 15%Crossroads Missions: $57k → 15%Crossroads Missions: $29k → 15%Crossroads Missions: $25k → 15%Water With Blessings: $22k → 15%Mom's Closet Resource Center Incdba Sparc Hope: $16k → 15%Southwest Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $30k → 15%SOUTHWEST CENTER: $20k → 15%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $18k → 15%ELDERSERVE INC: $17k → 15%Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poo: $25k → 15%Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poo: $24k → 15%Home for the Aged of the Little Sisters of the Poo: $20k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $17k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $22k → 15%NATIONAL SAFE PLACE: $16k → 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

NH
IL
IN
OH
NJ
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
TX
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 370 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

370
175

Total granted

$16M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+7%

Still filing today

91%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • KC
    KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $660k · revenue +382% · 34% of their budget
  • HO
    HOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $381k · revenue +428%
  • HD
    HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $313k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • CO
    COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • KH
    KENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -12%
  • RC
    RELEVANT CHURCH KY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $210k
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
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
2
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
3
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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4
Realtor Community Housing Foundation Inc

None

Housing & Shelter
5
Central Kentucky Community Action Council Inc

This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.

Human Services
6
Kentucky Senior Citizens Apartments Inc

Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.

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7
Day Spring Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity Pennyrile Region Inc

To provide affordable housing and financing to low income families.

Housing & Shelter
9
Cave Run Area Habitat for Humanity Inc

Provide low cost housing in cave run lake area of ky

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10
Faith Mountain Mission of Kentucky Inc
Youth Development
11
Western Ky Regional Mental Health & Ment Dba Four Rivers Behavioral

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.

Health
12
Coap Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

609 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. 609 of the 685 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)
157
Early backer (in before they grew)
592/609
Grantees still filing
387/609
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY: $1,000,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYKENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC: $350,000 · Other+96 more: $5,514,994 · Other+96 moreHOPE INITIATIVE INC: $625,000 · Human ServicesHOPE INITIATIVE INCChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc: $126,826 · Human Services+47 more: $2,581,282 · Human Services+47 moreHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $381,124 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ORI…HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $313,197 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING DEV…PARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC: $199,093 · Housing & ShelterPARTNERSHIP…NEW LEASE ON LIFE INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW LEASE O…USA CARES INC: $81,000 · Housing & ShelterWESLEY MANOR RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $66,304 · Housing & ShelterCHOICES INC: $61,085 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE: $58,997 · Housing & ShelterLord's Legacy Life Ministries: $58,227 · Housing & ShelterEmergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc: $53,214 · Housing & Shelter+6 more: $224,042 · Housing & Shelter+6 moreDISASTER SERVICES CORPORATION-SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL USA: $535,946 · Public Safety & DisasterCAMP GRAVES: $454,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY CORPORATION INC: $199,500 · Public Safety & DisasterKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $660,000 · EducationBLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC: $99,561 · EducationKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION: $70,000 · EducationHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC: $63,941 · EducationTHE BERRY CENTER INC: $53,500 · EducationLINCOLN FOUNDATION: $43,915 · Education+5 more: $166,893 · EducationKENTUCKY RIVER COMMUNITY CARE INC: $100,580 · HealthISAIAH HOUSE INC: $89,161 · HealthPOST CLINIC INC: $80,979 · HealthSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $69,394 · HealthHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $57,136 · HealthThe Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana Inc: $52,165 · HealthREFUGE MINISTRIES INC: $50,341 · HealthHAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC: $49,972 · HealthPROJECT CAMP INC: $46,614 · HealthCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $44,222 · HealthMemorial Hospital Inc: $42,636 · HealthHOPE2ALL INC: $42,500 · HealthKENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $36,342 · HealthMOUNTAIN COMPREHENSIVE CARE CENTER INC: $35,913 · HealthNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $34,895 · HealthNatalie's Sisters Inc: $34,157 · HealthDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $33,998 · HealthROCKCASTLE HOSPITAL & RESPIRATORY CARE CENTER INC: $32,865 · HealthMAYFIELD GRAVES LTRG INC: $600,000 · Community ImprovementMAYFIELD LIONS CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $48,200 · Community ImprovementSeedleaf Inc: $36,918 · Community Improvement
Other$7,114,994Human Services$3,333,108Housing & Shelter$1,596,283Public Safety & Disaster$1,189,446Education$1,157,810Health$933,870Community Improvement$805,118

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $660,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetHOPE INITIATIVE INC: $625,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMAYFIELD GRAVES LTRG INC: $600,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetDISASTER SERVICES CORPORATION-SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL USA: $535,946 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCAMP GRAVES: $454,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $381,124 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC: $350,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $313,197 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetKENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetLONG TERM DISASTER RECOVERY CORPORATION INC: $199,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetPARTNERSHIP HOUSING INC: $199,093 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $153,297 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc: $126,826 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $125,144 over 5y, 11% of budgetMAYFIELD LIONS CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCrossroads Missions: $111,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHAPPY FEET EQUALS LEARNING FEET INC: $109,200 over 7y, 16% of budgetAPPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC: $109,040 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $106,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetConfrontation Point Ministries Inc: $105,461 over 8y, 13% of budgetMARYHURST INC: $105,197 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $101,997 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKENTUCKY RIVER COMMUNITY CARE INC: $100,580 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LEASE ON LIFE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetUNITED HELPING HANDS OF PIKEVILLE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetBLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC: $99,561 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $97,101 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $96,032 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetISAIAH HOUSE INC: $89,161 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHOME FOR THE AGED OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC: $86,472 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $85,780 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetRAPE VICTIM SERVICES INC: $81,700 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUSA CARES INC: $81,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetPOST CLINIC INC: $80,979 over 5y, 21% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80,483 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND MINISTRIES INC: $80,288 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHonor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION: $79,796 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $79,687 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCASA OF LEXINGTON INC: $78,118 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetAMEN HOUSE INC: $77,306 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $75,262 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLAN COUNTY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $71,867 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetKENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC COMPETITION: $70,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetWOMEN AWARE INC: $69,885 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC: $69,593 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $69,394 over 4y, 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.

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.

Cralle Foundation IncThe Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Snowy Owl Foundation …Kosair Charities Comm…Blue Grass Community …The Whas Crusade for …The Community Foundat…Republic Bank Foundat…V V Cooke Foundation …
Cralle Foundation IncKY222.4× affinity135 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%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
    1get no government money at all
    79report 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 685 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 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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