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Kentucky Christian Foundation Inc National Christian Foundation Kentucky

Our vision is every person reached and restored through the love of Christ.

$367k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$184k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

53% of Kentucky Christian Foundation Inc National Christian Foundation Kentucky’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’20
10
’21
18
’22
15
’23
8
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.6MReligion$496kPublic Safety & Disaster$390kYouth Development$151kHuman Services$139kArts & Culture$90kInternational$44kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $349,296, the rows itemized in this filing. The $366,918 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,622 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $184k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Natl Christian Charitable Fnd$183,741
Camp GRAVES$32,555
Faithful Platform Fnd$23,000
Lexington Leadership Fnd$20,000
Young Life KY Development$20,000
Christian Family Media$20,000
Refuge for Women$20,000
Christian Student Fellowship$20,000
HOTEL Inc$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Awake Ministries: $10k → 9%Freedom Lake Ministries: $14k → 15%Transform Scott County: $10k → 8%Freedom Lake Ministries: $10k → 15%The Hope Initiative: $100k → 19%Scarlet Hope: $20k → 15%Christian Appalachian Project: $10k → 15%Scarlet Hope: $10k → 15%New Life Day Center: $10k → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$815k · 13 repeat orgs$566k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
30

Total granted

$815k
$503k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+21%

Still filing today

69%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • BT
    By The Spirit Ministries Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $172k · revenue +224%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +62%
  • LL
    LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • HI
    HOPE INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +4%
  • HM
    HR MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • CC
    Catalyst Community Center
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
2
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
3
Gods Promise Ministries International

Religious Purposes

Housing & Shelter
4
House of Hope Ministry Inc

Church organization

Religion
5
Refuge for Prodigals International Bible Ministries Inc
Religion
6
Transform Ministries
—
7
Unify Ministries
Religion
8
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
9
Lamb S House Ltd

Ministry that turns men from addiction to Jesus Christ by daily engaging them in spiritual, physical and financial guidance and goals

—
10
Salt With a Mission

Teach the ministry of christ

Religion
11
Relationship With Jesus Inc
Religion
12
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is Compassionate Justice. 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

33 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. 33 of the 47 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $2,557,777 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INCCHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP INC: $120,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN STUDENT…Bethlehem Missionary Baptist: $60,000 · OtherBethlehem Mission…ABIGAIL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $46,450 · OtherABIGAIL ACADEMY F…Catalyst Community Center: $40,000 · OtherCatalyst Communit…HOTEL INC: $30,000 · OtherOPERATION MAKING A CHANGE INCORPORATED: $30,000 · OtherCatalyst Community Church: $25,000 · OtherHR MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 · OtherHR MINISTRIES INC+17 more: $206,549 · Other+17 moreBy The Spirit Ministries Inc: $171,549 · ReligionLANE OF ROSES INC: $30,000 · ReligionFaithful Platform Foundation Inc: $23,000 · ReligionLONNIE RILEY MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · ReligionHope House Ministries Inc: $11,475 · ReligionPRACTICAL SHEPHERDING INC: $10,000 · ReligionRefuge International Inc: $10,000 · ReligionBUILDING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS LLC: $10,000 · ReligionC3 CURBSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH INC: $10,000 · ReligionHOPE INITIATIVE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSCARLET HOPE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $25,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM LAKE INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesIron Bell Ministries Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTransform Scott County Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE DAY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG LIFE: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCAMP GRAVES: $62,555 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$2,557,777Other$607,999Religion$291,024Human Services$234,000Youth Development$105,000Arts & Culture$80,000Public Safety & Disaster$62,555

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 budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $2,557,777 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBy The Spirit Ministries Inc: $171,549 over 3y, 16% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INITIATIVE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP GRAVES: $62,555 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHR MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetABIGAIL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $46,450 over 2y, 44% of budgetSCARLET HOPE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetHOTEL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLANE OF ROSES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM LAKE INC: $24,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN FAMILY MEDIA MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLONNIE RILEY MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetIron Bell Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE JUSTICE: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPsalm 823 Mission Inc: $12,139 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGOOD NEWS CENTER INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHope House Ministries Inc: $11,475 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNADUS FILMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetPRACTICAL SHEPHERDING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetC3 CURBSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTransform Scott County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNEW LIFE DAY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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…The Community Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…The Community Foundat…Kentucky Social Welfa…The King's Daughters …LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Baird Foundation IncRaymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY20.9× affinity8 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 · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Kentucky Christian Foundation Inc National Christian Foundation Kentucky?

    Find your warmest path to Kentucky Christian Foundation Inc National Christian Foundation Kentucky 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 47 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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