· Private foundation
Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GATEWAY CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $26,080 |
| HOTEL INC | $25,000 |
| THE PRISONERS HOPE | $20,000 |
| GARRARD COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION | $15,000 |
| REFUGE FOR WOMEN | $15,000 |
| HOPE COLLABORATIVE | $15,000 |
| HOSPICE CARE PLUS | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL | $14,655 |
| OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC DBA (AWAKE MINISTRIES) | $14,289 |
| REFUGE BOWLING GREEN | $12,500 |
| HABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION INC | $12,000 |
| HANDS & HEALING HEARTS INC DBA YES ARTS | $10,468 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA | $10,000 |
| SOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES DBA EXODUS FAMILY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- KYKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $87k · revenue +21%
- TPTHE PRISONERS HOPE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $46k · revenue +258%
- HSHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- GAGODS APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue -39%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYone grant, 2022 · $28k
- JSJEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +26%
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.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities and offer a…
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,…
Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.
To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…
Our mission is to provide hope to disadvantaged job seekers in central kentucky with a program designed to help them gain employment and follow up counseling.
Lifehouse, inc. provides for the spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs of pregnant and/or parenting teens and women and their children, both born and unborn.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
The barren river area child advocacy center provides specialized direct services to victims of child sexual abuse from ages 0-17 and their non- offending family/caregivers living in allen, barren, butler, edmonson, hart, logan, metcalfe,…
The mission of chrysalis house inc. is to provide family-oriented treatment and recovery support for women with substance use disorders.
The shelter of hope's mission is to provide temporary, emergency shelter and permanent housing assistance for individuals and families in need of transitional services leading them to self-sufficiency. provisions are made without…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Family Justice Advocates Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
70 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. 70 of the 98 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 KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds HOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRISONERS HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GODS APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LADIES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds FOR A REAL CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHINE SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds HABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION INC ↗
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: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Metro United Way Inc
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 Social Welfare Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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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