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Lexington Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$75kHealth$57kHuman Services$16kFood & Nutrition$16kRecreation & Sports$14kArts & Culture$10kYouth Development$9kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$526k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIPS 9$21,000
LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH$6,118
CAMP HORSIN AROUND$5,000
MAKE A WISH$5,000
FOOD CHAIN$3,000
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 (FY19–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPARUS INC: $250 → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 15%CASA OF LEXINGTON: $1k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 26% of Lexington Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 77%.

Lexington Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research Inclessmore 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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 10 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
24

Total granted

$93k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+37%

Still filing today

50%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CF
    COACHES FOR THE KIDS INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $16k · revenue +97%
  • LI
    LEXARTS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • FI
    FOODCHAIN INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +337%

Funded once

  • SU
    SCHOLARSHIPS - UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (24)
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • SC
    SCHOLARSHIPS - CENTRE COLLEGE (11)
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • SM
    SCHOLARSHIPS - MOREHEAD UNIVERSITY (7)
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
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
Civiclex Incorporated

Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.

Arts & Culture
2
Lexington Community Radio Inc

RADIOLEX provides multiple media platforms to amplify underrepresented local voices and promote an equitable, inclusive community while nurturing an informed and safe Lexington.

Community Improvement
3
Kentucky Blood Center Inc

At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…

Health
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
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
6
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc

Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…

Health
7
Lexington Gay Services Organization Inc

Lexington Pride Center celebrates and empowers the intersectional lives of LGBTQIA+ Kentuckians. We envision a world where all LGBTQIA+ people are free to be who they are and love who they love.

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8
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
9
Lexington Art League Inc

The organization promotes the visual arts in the central kentucky area through sponsorshps of exhibits, offering classes, art fairs, and similar endeavors.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Junior League of Lexington Inc

The Junior League of Lexington is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. The League's purpose is exclusively…

Community Improvement
12
Moveable Feast Lexington Inc

The organization's mission is to deliver hot, nutritious meals, free of charge, to lexington, kentucky residents living with aids or an hiv- related illness, those in hospice care and to their caregivers and dependents.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexarts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feast On Equality. 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

19 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. 19 of the 36 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIPS - UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (24): $24,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS - UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY (24)SCHOLARSHIPS 9: $21,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS 9LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH: $16,118 · OtherLEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECHMAKE A WISH: $15,000 · OtherMAKE A WISHCAMP HORSIN AROUND: $12,500 · OtherCAMP HORSIN AROUNDSCHOLARSHIPS - CENTRE COLLEGE (11): $11,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS - CENTRE COLLEGE (11)SCHOLARSHIPS - MOREHEAD UNIVERSITY (7): $7,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIPS - TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY (5): $5,000 · Other+15 more: $25,330 · Other+15 moreAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 · HealthAPPALACHIA…AVOL KENTUCKY INC: $5,300 · HealthAVOL KENTU…CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $1,750 · HealthCHRYSALIS …American Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthAmerican H…COACHES FOR THE KIDS INC: $16,000 · PhilanthropyCOACHES F…LEXARTS INC: $9,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureFOODCHAIN INC: $8,824 · Food & NutritionVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3,360 · EducationST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · EducationARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $4,381 · Human ServicesCASA OF LEXINGTON INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $250 · Human Services
Other$136,948Health$18,050Philanthropy$16,000Arts & Culture$9,750Food & Nutrition$8,824Education$5,860Human Services$5,631

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 budgetCOACHES FOR THE KIDS INC: $16,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEXARTS INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOODCHAIN INC: $8,824 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAVOL KENTUCKY INC: $5,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $4,381 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMERCE LEXINGTON INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEAST ON EQUALITY: $2,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSeedleaf Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON CHALLENGER TENNIS CHARITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LEXINGTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON FAIRNESS INC: $500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds COACHES FOR THE KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds LEXARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds AVOL KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMERCE LEXINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FEAST ON EQUALITY ↗
  • Who funds Seedleaf Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON CHALLENGER TENNIS CHARITY INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON FAIRNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds KIMANIS CLUB OF VERSAILLES INC ↗

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.

Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Ee Murry Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass 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 Lexington Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lexington Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Lexington Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lexington Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research Inc 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 36 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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