· Public charity
Kentucky Elk and Outdoor Fest Ltd
Our mission is to organize and host an annual festival for the promotion of the annual kentucky elk hunt draw conducted by the kentucky department of fish and wildlife resources.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $119,843 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $273,601 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $153,758 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 $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF BARDSTOWN | $50,000 |
| IDOLS ASIDE MINISTRIES INC | $12,737 |
| NELSON COUNTY 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU FEDERATION | $7,651 |
| FERN CREEK SPORTSMAN FOUNDATION | $7,642 |
| KENTUCKY CHAPTER OF SCHOLASTIC ARCH | $7,006 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL | $6,855 |
| ST GREGORY | $6,276 |
| NOE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $6,276 |
| HARRISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $5,400 |
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 (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- COCITY OF BARDSTOWN2× · 2024–2025 · $100k
- IAIdols Aside Ministries Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $77k · revenue +30%
- NCNELSON COUNTY 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT3× · 2023–2025 · $26k
Funded once
- KFKENTUCKY FISH & WILDLIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $31k · revenue 0%
- JPJACKSON PURCHASE RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -54% · 32% of their budget
- MCMUHLENBERG COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
Conservation education and promotion
We are a non-profit that provides training for all hunting and fishing equipment in ohio to youths 8 to 16.
Dedicated to conservation preservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat
The main objectives of this league are as follows:(1) to maintain the honor, dignity, and ethics of good sportsmanship among the members of this league.(2) to maintain active membership in the league of kentucky sportsmen and through our…
The blfga intends to promote the outdoors and outdoor sports to all poeple, with a special focus on youth in an effort to conserve the outdoor culture of the area. we will work to educate people with regards to safety, ethics, character,…
The mission of the pfsc is to protect and promote hunting, fishing, trapping and realted sportsmen's rights and privileges, to secure and defend our 2nd amendment rights as guaranteed by the constitution of the united states of america; to…
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The League of Kentucky Sportsmen I and the most unlike its peers is Jackson Purchase Resource Conservation & Development Foundat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 23 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 Idols Aside Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY FISH & WILDLIFE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON PURCHASE RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF KENTUCKY SPORTSMEN I ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GLASGOWBARREN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASTING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS & ANGLERS ↗
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 Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Elk and Outdoor Fest Ltd 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.
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