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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.

$206k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Public Benefit$290kHuman Services$225kCivil Rights$195kCrime & Legal$121kReligion$114kPublic Safety & Disaster$93kPhilanthropy$75kEducation$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $157,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $206,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,500 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.
$17,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY HOUSE$20,000
LIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK$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
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 (FY20–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KY TENANTS: $30k → 8%BOWLING GREEN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $9k → 18%CANOPY YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY HOUSE: $20k → 8%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $13k → 29%KY TENANTS: $20k → 8%KENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%Kentucky YMCA Youth Association: $5k → 14%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $17k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $14k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 15%Louisville Urban League: $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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 17 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$1.0M
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+22%

Still filing today

82%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • SU
    SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $131k · revenue +377%
  • CY
    Canopy Young Adult Community House Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +26%
  • FE
    FAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND
    4× · 2020–2023 · $67k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • NA
    NEW AMERICANS INITIATIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +615% · 30% of their budget
  • OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -100%
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
Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit
3
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
4
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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5
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
6
Kentucky Association for Economic Development Inc

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.

Community Improvement
7
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
8
Kentucky Resources Council Inc

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…

Environment
9
Commonwealth Alliance Action Fund

To sustain lasting and impactful nonprofit and advocacy infrastructure and networks that support a thriving, informed, and active multi-racial democracy in kentucky.

Public Benefit
10
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc

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…

Health
11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
12
One Nky Alliance Inc

Our mission is to transform northern kentucky by uniting and mobilizing community leaders around initiatives that produce tangible, measureable results.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 35 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFE COACH EACH ONE TEACH: $158,200 · OtherLIFE COACH EACH ONE TEACHKENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $48,500 · OtherKENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATIONTHE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF KENTUCKY INC: $46,000 · OtherTHE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF KENTUCKY INCAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC: $49,072 · OtherOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS I…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $27,500 · OtherVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $25,000 · OtherLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC: $50,000 · OtherLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INCNEW AMERICANS INITIATIVE: $20,000 · Other+10 more: $81,250 · Other+10 moreCanopy Young Adult Community House Inc: $70,000 · Human ServicesCanopy Young Adult …THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $65,500 · Human ServicesTHE LOUISVILLE URBA…Community Agenda for Regained Empowerment: $50,750 · Human ServicesCommunity Agenda fo…KENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesKENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH…THE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesLive the Proof Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $148,500 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR…OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $15,300 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE…BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE GRASS COM…SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $131,000 · Civil RightsSHOWING UP …FAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND: $67,000 · EducationFAIRNESS …CHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW: $48,750 · EducationCHANGE TO…CIVICLEX INCORPORATED: $66,500 · Arts & CultureAPPALSHOP INC: $16,250 · Arts & CultureMayfield Enrichment Center Inc: $75,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$525,522Human Services$234,750Philanthropy$173,800Civil Rights$131,000Education$115,750Arts & Culture$82,750Public Safety & Disaster$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $148,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $131,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCanopy Young Adult Community House Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetFAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND: $67,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCIVICLEX INCORPORATED: $66,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $65,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Agenda for Regained Empowerment: $50,750 over 2y, 27% of budgetLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC: $49,072 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHANGE TODAY CHANGE TOMORROW: $48,750 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW AMERICANS INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetKENTUCKY YMCA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $16,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $15,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKentucky Interfaith Power & Light Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAppalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc: $8,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZEROV INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Blue Grass Community …The Brooke Brown Barz…Sociable Weaver Found…Honorable Order of Ke…Owsley Brown II Famil…New Venture FundHumana Foundation IncSnowy Owl Foundation …Amalgamated Charitabl…The Community Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository IncKY29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Civic Engagement Table Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kentucky Civic Engagement Table Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 35 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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