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Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Foundation

To support those in need and improve the quality of life throughout the commonwealth of kentucky.

$626k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$145k
Largest
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.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$422kInternational$50k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $479k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$54k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING KENTUCKY INC$144,620
KENTUCKY HUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY$72,310
GLEAN KENTUCKY$72,310
GEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC$70,000
NORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC$70,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL$50,000
THE FARM AND FOREST FAMILIES OF TENNESSEE INC$35,000
FLORIDA FARM BUREAU$35,000
SOUTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU$35,000
VIRGINIA FARM BUREAU$35,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$6,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%THE FARM AND FOREST FAMILIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $35k → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 22%GEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC: $70k → 23%GLEAN KENTUCKY: $72k → 15%GLEAN KENTUCKY: $66k → 15%GLEAN KENTUCKY: $61k → 15%GLEAN KENTUCKY: $58k → 15%GLEAN KENTUCKY: $53k → 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 4 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$1.3M
$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k 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
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • FK
    FEEDING KENTUCKY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +76%
  • KH
    Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry
    5× · 2020–2024 · $307k · revenue +202% · 41% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2021–2024 · $142k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • GF
    GEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue -57%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +8%
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
Feed America First of Tennessee

Feed america first is a murfreesboro, tn based food ministry focused upon hunger relief in small towns and rural communities in middle tn and parts of al, ky and ms. since 2000 faf has distributed enough food for over 150,000,000 meals to…

Food & Nutrition
2
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

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3
Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

To develop, foster, promote and protect programs for the general welfare, including economic, social, educational and political well-being of farm people of the great state of tennessee.

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4
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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5
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc

To serve those in need by acquiring and distributing food, grocery items, and government commodities through a network of charitable partnering agencies in 42 kentucky counties.

Food & Nutrition
6
Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation

Kentucky farm bureau is a grassroots organization dedicated to serving our membership family and their communities. as the voice of agriculture, we identify problems, develop solutions, promote economic success, and enhance the quality of…

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7
American Farmland Trust

Saves the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Farm Ministry Inc

To provide for the donation of food to food pantries and other organizations that provide food to persons in need, and directly to persons in need.

Human Services
9
Arkansas Rice Council

The arkansas rice council is the promotional arm of the arkansas rice industry. the arkansas rice council is affiliated with the usa rice council, which steers the course for domestic and international promotion of u.s.-grown rice.

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10
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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11
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
12
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc

The mission of god's pantry food bank is reducing hunger by working together to feed kentucky communities. god's pantry food bank envisions a nourished life for every kentuckian.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Kentucky Inc; the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEEDING KENTUCKY INC: $499,989 · Food & NutritionFEEDING KENTUCKY INCGLEAN KENTUCKY INC: $308,994 · Food & NutritionGLEAN KENTUCKY INCKentucky Hunters for the Hungry: $307,494 · Food & NutritionKentucky Hunters for the HungryGEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC: $70,000 · Food & NutritionGEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC+1 more: $35,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $142,100 · Human ServicesAmerican N…FLORIDA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $35,000 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $35,000 · OtherVIRGINIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $35,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Crime & LegalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 · International
Food & Nutrition$1,221,477Human Services$142,100Other$105,000Crime & Legal$70,000International$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEEDING KENTUCKY INC: $499,989 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetGLEAN KENTUCKY INC: $308,994 over 5y, 10% of budgetKentucky Hunters for the Hungry: $307,494 over 5y, 41% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $142,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGEORGIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC: $70,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FARM AND FOREST FAMILIES OF TENNESSEE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFLORIDA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Farm Bureau Insurance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%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
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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 Farm Bureau Insurance Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Foundation 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 11 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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