· Public charity
Kentucky Science and Technology Corp
KENTUCKY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPoration (kstc) is an entrepreneurial company dedicated to enhancing the capacity of people, companies and organizations to develop and apply science and technology and compete responsibly in the global marketplace.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLASTIBLOK LTD | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| CLOVERLEAF | $374,997 |
| GO WILD ALPHA INC | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| WEARWARE | $150,000 |
| ORGVITALS | $150,000 |
| KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM | $116,675 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $102,487 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| RAADZ INC | $50,000 |
| HUMBLEBRAG | $50,000 |
| VICTORY HEMP FOODS | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2021, 47 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KHKENTUCKY HIGHLANDS INVESTMENT CORP2× · 2017–2018 · $301k · revenue +28%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE3× · 2017–2019 · $264k · revenue +60%
- TETRI-COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2017–2018 · $240k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- COCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYone grant, 2019 · $15M
- EEJDSPORTSone grant, 2018 · $500k
- ETEDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $375k · revenue +67%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 167 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kentucky Science and Technology Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kentucky Science and Technology Corp. Bigger dots raise more.
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