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Keeneland Foundation Inc at a glance

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Keeneland Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$346k
Granted FY2026still arriving
33
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$302kRecreation & Sports$293kHealth$251kEducation$214kPhilanthropy$160kHuman Services$119kAnimals$105kEmployment$56kOther$0
02FY2026 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k22 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$359k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STABLE RECOVERY$72,064
ED BROWN SOCIETY$50,000
LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
LEXINGTON CHILDRENS THEATRE INC$15,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$15,000
THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION$15,000
LIFE ADVENTURE CENTER$10,000
GOVERNOR'S SCHOLAR PROGRAM FOUNDATION$10,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL KY$10,000
OLD LADIES HOME DBA ASHLAND TERRACE$10,000
NEWTON'S ATTIC$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC$8,000
CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC$6,705
SAYRE CHRISTIAN VILLAGE$6,101
LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER$5,050
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 (FY17–26, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIFE ADVENTURE CENTER: $10k → 10%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%NEWTON'S ATTIC: $10k → 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
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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 36 repeat orgs$541k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2026, 18 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
40

Total granted

$1.4M
$447k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+28%

Still filing today

83%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LI
    LEXARTS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $180k · revenue +14%
  • LP
    LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2026 · $100k · revenue +135%
  • GC
    GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +30%

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 ×46
  • EF
    EKU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $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
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
2
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
3
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
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 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.

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6
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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7
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
8
Child Care Council of Kentucky Inc

The child care council of kentucky is committed to supporting providers, empowering families and strengthening communities by expanding access to high quality child care resources, advocacy, and training.

Human Services
9
The Backside Learning Center Inc

The purpose of the organization is to provide educational, linguistic, social and other charitable services to persons, and their families, engaged primarily in the care, training, and/or any other activity involving thoroughbred race…

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10
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
11
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key Assets Kentucky Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 91 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
43/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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: $44,251 · OtherLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE…UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $35,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY: $30,000 · Other+44 more: $373,516 · Other+44 moreED BROWN SOCIETY INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyED BROWN SOCIETY …PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPERMANENTLY DISAB…BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE GRASS COMMUN…MAP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMAP FOUNDATION IN…GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGOVERNOR'S SCHOLA…LEXARTS INC: $180,000 · Arts & CultureLEXARTS INCLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $23,750 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON CHIL…LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON CHIL…LEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $12,107 · Arts & CultureLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationLEXINGTON P…KEENELAND LIBRARY AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $52,294 · EducationKEENELAND L…DV8 KITCHEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOUNDATI ON INC: $33,700 · EducationDV8 KITCHEN…ASBURY COLLEGE: $14,200 · EducationASBURY COLL…+2 more: $3,500 · EducationSTABLE RECOVERY INC: $97,064 · HealthSTABLE RECO…SAYRE CHRISTIAN VILLAGE NURSING HOME INC: $16,801 · HealthSAYRE CHRIS…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN CA…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $13,000 · HealthRONALD MCDO…American Horse Council Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthHOOVES OF HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $7,500 · HealthVOICES OF HOPE LEXINGTON INC: $7,500 · Health+6 more: $23,728 · Health+6 moreUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $17,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesLIFE ADVENTURE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNewton's Attic Inc: $10,000 · 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 RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $7,500 · AnimalsTHOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE: $4,228 · Animals
Other$792,767Philanthropy$305,000Arts & Culture$248,357Education$203,694Health$200,593Human Services$120,000Animals$111,728

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 budgetLEXARTS INC: $180,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSTABLE RECOVERY INC: $97,064 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $44,251 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDV8 KITCHEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOUNDATI ON INC: $33,700 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $23,750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOLD LADIES HOME D/B/A ASHLAND TERRACE: $22,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $22,500 over 3y, 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 budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $19,505 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $17,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAYRE CHRISTIAN VILLAGE NURSING HOME INC: $16,801 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC: $15,600 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE: $14,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $12,500 over 3y, 1.4% 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 budgetBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOOVES OF HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE LEXINGTON INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECRETARIAT CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% 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 budgetWILDERNESS TRACE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTE CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 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 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 budgetMentors and Meals Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC: $1,814 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 91 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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