· Private foundation
Laura G Turner Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of LAURA G TURNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $682k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CORE | $1,000,000 |
| ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $375,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY | $100,000 |
| KENTUCKY LEGAL AID | $85,000 |
| ALLEN COUNTY-SCOTTSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS CO HANNAH ERWIN | $75,000 |
| HABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION & EDUCATION (HIVE) | $62,400 |
| OWSLEY BROWN FRAZIER HISTORICAL ARMS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DUGAS COMMUNITY PARK INC | $50,000 |
| HEART OF SCOTTSVILLE | $50,000 |
| ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY (FORMERLY SKYPAC) | $50,000 |
| BRASS (BARREN RIVER AREA SAFE SPACE) | $50,000 |
| ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE ARTS COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY | $50,000 |
| ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE ARTS COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 Laura G Turner Charitable Foundation Inc’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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k 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
- BRBARREN RIVER AREA SAFE SPACE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +91%
- AOARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $248k · revenue +561%
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC3× · 2020–2024 · $225k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- ACALLEN COUNTY FISCAL COURTone grant, 2020 · $500k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OFone grant, 2020 · $181k
- COCITY OF SCOTTSVILLEone grant, 2023 · $128k
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 economic development to southeastern kentucky.
To facilitate the economic growth and development of the southern kentucky region.
To improve lives by providing support through funding local agenies and performing community growth activities.
To serve as philanthropic connector for donors in the central kentucky region who wish to make their community a better place.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.
The foundation was formed exclusively for charitable purposes, including the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the code or the corresponding provisions of any future…
Backroads of appalachia is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide new economic opportunities within the communities of eastern kentucky and southwest virginia.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
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 eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts of Southern Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Action of Southern Kentucky Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 39 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 BARREN RIVER AREA SAFE SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF SCOTTSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds BAREFOOT REPUBLIC INC ↗
- Who funds OWSLEY BROWN FRAZIER HISTORICAL ARMS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DUGAS COMMUNITY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Laura G Turner 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.
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