· Public charity
Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc
Common ground kentucky coordinates resources to support grassroots organizations building the organized people power and communities of care that lead to a thriving commonwealth for all kentuckians.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $157,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $206,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK | $20,000 |
| CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY HOUSE | $20,000 |
| CIVICLEX | $18,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF KENTUCKY EDUCATION FUND INC | $18,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY | $17,000 |
| LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE | $16,500 |
| VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS - VOCAL-NY-INC | $15,500 |
| KENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SUSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $131k · revenue +377%
- CYCanopy Young Adult Community House Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +26%
- FEFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND4× · 2020–2023 · $67k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +17%
- NANEW AMERICANS INITIATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +615% · 30% of their budget
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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,…
To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of kentucky.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Kentucky resources council (krc) is a public-interest environmental law and advocacy organization that works to protect and defend the people, communities, and natural resources of kentucky. krc uses legal and strategic advocacy to protect…
To sustain lasting and impactful nonprofit and advocacy infrastructure and networks that support a thriving, informed, and active multi-racial democracy in kentucky.
Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
Our mission is to transform northern kentucky by uniting and mobilizing community leaders around initiatives that produce tangible, measureable results.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Live the Proof 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 35 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.
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Mayfield Enrichment Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Canopy Young Adult Community House Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CIVICLEX INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Agenda for Regained Empowerment ↗
- Who funds LIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds Live the Proof Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ZEROV INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Humana Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository 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 Kentucky Civic Engagement Table 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.
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.