· Private foundation
Kim Edwards Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS | $5,000 |
| FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST | $3,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY | $2,500 |
| YMCA | $2,000 |
| BCTC FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS | $2,000 |
| BCTC PRESIDENT'S ASSISTANCE FUND | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $1,750 |
| AMERICAN PROMISE | $1,500 |
| ACLU | $1,500 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY | $1,000 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER | $1,000 |
| STATES NEWSROOM (KY LANTERN) | $1,000 |
| KENTUCKY HUMANITIES COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS | $500 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 13 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- NDNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +39%
- CLCARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING6× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue +25%
- TFThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- MLMILNER LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $3k
- SJST JAMES' EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $1k
- KWKENTUCKY WOMEN WRITERS CONFERENCEone grant, 2020 · $1k
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 support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…
The american legislative exchange council (alec) is a forum for stakeholders to exchange ideas and develop potential solutions. alec's mission is to advance and promote the jeffersonian principles of limited government, free markets and…
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seneca Yacht Club. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 56 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 NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LITERACY CENTER INC CARNEGIE CENTER FOR LITERACY & LEARNING ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUTHORS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds TREES LEXINGTON ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO EYE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Repairers of the Breach ↗
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Kim Edwards Charitable Foundation Inc 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.