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Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$233kCrime & Legal$183kHousing & Shelter$152kEducation$147kYouth Development$120kHealth$111kReligion$84kArts & Culture$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $235k
$10,468
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GATEWAY CHILDREN'S SERVICES$26,080
HOTEL INC$25,000
THE PRISONERS HOPE$20,000
REFUGE FOR WOMEN$15,000
HOPE COLLABORATIVE$15,000
HOSPICE CARE PLUS$15,000
GARRARD COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION$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
SOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES DBA EXODUS FAMILY MINISTRIES$10,000
SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUTHRIE OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATIONS: $7k → 11%HOSPICE CARE PLUS: $15k → 16%LIFE ADVENTURE CENTER: $10k → 10%GUTHRIE OPPORTUNITY CTR FDN INC: $5k → 11%BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $5k → 15%HOSPICE CARE PLUS: $7k → 16%SAINT VINCENT MISSION: $8k → 35%ST MARY'S CENTER: $7k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $25k → 15%THE PRISONERS HOPE: $20k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 15%THE PRISONER'S HOPE: $20k → 15%ORPHAN CARE ALLIANCE INC: $8k → 15%SOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES DBA EXODUS FAMILY MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC DBA YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE: $25k → 15%THE PRISONER'S HOPE: $6k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $19k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 92%.

Kentucky Social Welfare Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$360k · 13 repeat orgs$902k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
64

Total granted

$360k
$693k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationReligionOther
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

  • KY
    KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $87k · revenue +21%
  • TP
    THE PRISONERS HOPE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $46k · revenue +258%
  • HS
    HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • GA
    GODS APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue -39%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • JS
    JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +26%
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
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
2
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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3
Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky

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…

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4
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
5
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
6
House of Hope of Kentucky Inc

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…

Health
7
Jubilee Jobs of Lexington Inc

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.

Employment
8
Lifehouse Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Day Spring Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Barren River Area Child Advocacy Ce

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,…

Crime & Legal
11
Chrysalis House Inc

The mission of chrysalis house inc. is to provide family-oriented treatment and recovery support for women with substance use disorders.

Health
12
Shelter of Hope Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
40/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOTEL INC: $53,000 · OtherHOTEL INCUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $28,000 · OtherCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $28,000 · OtherWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $28,000 · Other+56 more: $532,933 · Other+56 moreTHE PRISONERS HOPE INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesTHE PRISONERS HOPE I…the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $25,000 · Human Servicesthe Young Men's Chri…YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPM…HOSPICE CARE PLUS INC: $22,352 · Human ServicesHOSPICE CARE PLUS IN…OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR OF HOPE IN…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE I…LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $15,000 · Human ServicesLEXINGTON RESCUE MIS…GUTHRIE OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesLIFE ADVENTURE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT MISSION INC: $8,000 · Human Services+4 more: $22,898 · Human Services+4 moreKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $87,099 · Civil RightsCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $13,400 · Civil RightsHAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC: $13,475 · HealthISAIAH HOUSE INC: $12,630 · HealthHABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION INC: $12,000 · HealthGATHERING STRENGTH INC: $9,000 · HealthSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $7,500 · HealthTIP IT FORWARD: $6,400 · HealthRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $5,000 · HealthMATTHEW 25 AIDS SERVICES INC: $4,500 · HealthHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC: $29,050 · EducationFOR A REAL CHANGE INC: $25,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationCARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING: $5,000 · EducationGATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC: $26,080 · Crime & LegalFAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $18,000 · Crime & LegalZEROV INC: $10,996 · Crime & LegalLOUISVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalGATEWAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $3,750 · Crime & LegalGODS APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $29,000 · ReligionJEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC: $25,658 · ReligionLIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC: $4,500 · Religion
Other$694,933Human Services$234,750Civil Rights$100,499Health$70,505Education$67,050Crime & Legal$63,826Religion$59,158

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $87,099 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOTEL INC: $53,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PRISONERS HOPE INC: $46,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC: $29,050 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGODS APPALACHIAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $29,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $28,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGATEWAY JUVENILE DIVERSION PROJECT INC: $26,080 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC: $25,658 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOSEPHINE SCULPTURE PARK INC: $23,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHOSPICE CARE PLUS INC: $22,352 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $19,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $18,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC: $14,655 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL: $13,964 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC: $13,475 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $13,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetISAIAH HOUSE INC: $12,630 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGUTHRIE OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF PIKEVILLE EXPOSITION CENTER CORPORATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZEROV INC: $10,996 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE ADVENTURE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHENDERSON SETTLEMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGATHERING STRENGTH INC: $9,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetKENTUCKY COUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSE D/B/A PREVENT CHILD ABUSE KENTUCKY: $8,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT MISSION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS OF LOGAN COUNTY INC: $7,788 over 1y, 14% of budgetSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN CARE ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSMC REGINA'S CENTER: $6,898 over 1y, 0.7% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Honorable Order of Ke…Cralle Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The King's Daughters …Blue Grass Community …Kosair Charities Comm…Metro United Way Inc
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels IncKY99.3× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
30report 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, 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 Social Welfare Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kentucky Social Welfare 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 98 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-PF 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home