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Keeneland Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$302kRecreation & Sports$293kHealth$251kEducation$214kPhilanthropy$160kHuman Services$119kAnimals$105kEmployment$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$429k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
ED BROWN SOCIETY$50,000
LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL KY$10,000
DV8 KITCHEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOUNDATION$8,500
LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION INC$7,000
LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER$5,256
FOODCHAIN INC$5,000
GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC$5,000
EXPLORIUM OF LEXINGTONLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$5,000
LEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM$5,000
CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC$5,000
CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC$3,900
KENTUCKY EQUINE ADOPTION CENTER$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS: $4k → 15%CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS: $3k → 15%LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $12k → 15%LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 15%THE LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $12k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $50k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $10k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 30 repeat orgs$535k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
39

Total granted

$1.1M
$458k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+21%

Still filing today

80%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • LI
    LEXARTS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $180k · revenue +14%
  • GC
    GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +30%
  • LP
    LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • PD
    PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • KL
    KEENELAND LIBRARY AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $52k · revenue ×51
  • EF
    EKU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
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
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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4
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
5
Kentucky Habitat for Humanity Inc

Kentucky Habitat for Humanity's purpose is to work on a statewide level to create partnerships, financial resources, and educational programs to support the mission of building decent, affordable, and sustainable homes and communities for…

—
6
Kentucky Blood Center Inc

At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…

Health
7
Recovery Cafe Lexington Inc

To empower people in their own recovery with a welcoming community-driven sanctuary to connect with one another, heal, feel accepted, loved and worthy of success in their life.

Health
8
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
9
House of Hope of Kentucky Inc

To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…

Health
10
Kentucky Racing Health and Welfare Fund Inc

To provide exclusively for the benefit, aid, relief, and assistance of the racing personnel employed in connection with horse racing who can demonstrate their need for financial assistance.

—
11
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
12
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Children's Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Keeneland Library and Museum 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.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%9%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%10%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr15%31%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
13%
241/1,918

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 77 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
39/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ATHLETICS — $260,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ATHLETICSEKU FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherEKU FOUNDATIONLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC — $39,201 · OtherLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEA…UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $30,000 · OtherBLUEGRASS TECH & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Other+37 more — $307,061 · Other+37 morePERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPERMANENTLY DISA…ED BROWN SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyED BROWN SOCIETY…BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE GRASS COMMU…MAP FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyMAP FOUNDATION I…GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyGOVERNOR'S SCHOL…LEXARTS INC — $180,000 · Arts & CultureLEXARTS INCLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON CHILD…LEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC — $8,750 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $12,107 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationLEXINGTON PU…KEENELAND LIBRARY AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $52,294 · EducationKEENELAND LI…DV8 KITCHEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOUNDATI ON INC — $33,700 · EducationDV8 KITCHEN …ASBURY COLLEGE — $14,200 · EducationASBURY COLLE…+1 more — $2,500 · EducationUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION — $17,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE — $4,228 · Animals+1 more — $2,500 · AnimalsSTABLE RECOVERY INC — $25,000 · HealthSAYRE CHRISTIAN VILLAGE NURSING HOME INC — $10,700 · HealthAmerican Horse Council Foundation Inc — $10,000 · HealthBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthVOICES OF HOPE LEXINGTON INC — $7,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $5,000 · HealthCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC — $5,000 · HealthSURGERY ON SUNDAY INC — $3,500 · Health+3 more — $7,728 · Health
Other$711,262Philanthropy$240,000Arts & Culture$230,857Education$177,694Human Services$100,000Animals$91,728Health$84,428

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEXARTS INC — $180,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC — $39,201 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDV8 KITCHEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOUNDATI ON INC — $33,700 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSTABLE RECOVERY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAP FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION — $17,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE — $14,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC — $12,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOLD LADIES HOME D/B/A ASHLAND TERRACE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC — $12,100 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSAYRE CHRISTIAN VILLAGE NURSING HOME INC — $10,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT KENTUCKY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Horse Council Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC — $8,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE LEXINGTON INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE PARENT FAMILY FACILITY CORPORATION — $7,200 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC — $5,107 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILDERNESS TRACE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTE CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE — $4,228 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSURGERY ON SUNDAY INC — $3,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBREAKING FREE MINISTRY INC — $2,728 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSECRETARIAT CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMentors and Meals Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKENTUCKY CANCERLINK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LARRY GILBERT-DAVE BUNNELL FOUNDATION INC C/O BANK OF LEXINGTON — $2,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetGATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC — $1,814 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Blue Grass Community …Honorable Order of Ke…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…American Water Charit…The King's Daughters …Roaring Brook Foundat…United Way of the Blu…Christian Word Minist…Baird Foundation IncHilary Boone Foundati…Elhapa Foundation IncCralle Foundation Inc
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY79× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc

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 Keeneland 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Keeneland Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Keeneland Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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