· Public charity
Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts Foundation
Represent and Assist Kentuckys 121 Local Conservation Districts and 35 Watershed Conservancy Districts.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $815,582 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $901,754 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,172 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $759k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Webster County Conservation District | $52,109 |
| Crittenden County Conservation District | $38,902 |
| Fleming County Conservation District | $36,420 |
| Adair County Conservation District | $35,438 |
| Woodford County Conservation District | $35,322 |
| Boone County Conservation District | $33,563 |
| Harrison County Conservation District | $33,044 |
| Casey County Conservation District | $32,432 |
| Warren County Conservation District | $31,560 |
| Carroll County Conservation District | $31,398 |
| Nelson County Conservation District | $31,138 |
| Franklin County Conservation District | $28,933 |
| Monroe County Conservation District | $28,920 |
| Wayne County Conservation District | $28,874 |
| Ohio County Conservation District | $28,616 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 76% of your 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
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
- ACAdair County Conservation District5× · 2021–2025 · $144k
- WCWOODFORD COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT5× · 2021–2025 · $135k
- FCFLEMING COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT5× · 2021–2025 · $122k
Funded once
- ECESTILL COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $108k
- HCHENDERSON COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $27k
- HSHOPKINS SWCDone grant, 2023 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2025.
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 2021–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 40 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
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.
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