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Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$149k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Civil Rights$1.2MEnvironment$337kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kHousing & Shelter$160kCrime & Legal$51kArts & Culture$43k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$148,737
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH$148,737
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 29%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COWAN COUNTY ACTION GROUP: $10k → 29%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 4 repeat orgs$469k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$1.5M
$469k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • KF
    KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue -23% · 52% of their budget
  • LK
    LIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $120k · revenue +62%
  • CB
    CARL BRADEN MEMORIAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $104k

Funded once

  • HI
    HOMES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $180k
  • HD
    HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $160k · revenue +46%
  • EK
    EAST KENTUCKY SOCIAL CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $43k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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
2
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
3
Kcc-the Kentucky Conservation Committee Inc

Environmental public interest lobbying and education work

Environment
4
Community Act Council for Lex-Fay Bour Harr and Nich Counties Inc

Community action council for lexington-fayette, bourbon, harrison, and nicholas counties, inc. prevents, reduces, and eliminates poverty among individuals, families, and communities through direct services and advocacy.

Education
5
Central Kentucky Community Action Council Inc

This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.

Human Services
6
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
7
Climate Defiance Action

Advocate for climate change and other environmental action via nonviolent direct action

8
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

9
Alliance for Climate Transition Inc

ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Kceoc Community Action Partnership Inc

Kceoc community action partnership is dedicated to recognizing human potential, improving communities, and creating opportunities for change.

Education
12
Community Action Partnership of Middle Alabama Inc

Providing low income individuals home energy assistance and providing emergency assitance as needed

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Resources Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carl Braden Memorial Center 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC — $1,162,770 · OtherKENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INCHOMES INC — $180,000 · OtherHOMES INCNational Conference of Firemen & Oilers — $80,000 · OtherNational Conference of Firemen & Oilers+2 more — $55,625 · OtherHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $160,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING D…LIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC — $120,000 · InternationalCARL BRADEN MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $103,500 · Civil RightsKENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $33,333 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC — $20,500 · Crime & LegalHEMPHILL COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,478,395Housing & Shelter$160,000International$120,000Civil Rights$103,500Environment$33,333Crime & Legal$20,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC — $1,162,770 over 6y, 52% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $160,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC — $120,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCARL BRADEN MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $103,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetNational Conference of Firemen & Oilers — $80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $33,333 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC — $20,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWashington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Berea CollegeKY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berea College · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Coalition 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your 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
    1report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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