· Private foundation
LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k417 grants · $1.0M
- $10k–50k66 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC | $749,000 |
| METRO UNITED WAY INC | $336,295 |
| METRO UNITED WAY INC | $211,455 |
| WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC | $183,308 |
| YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE | $120,000 |
| METRO UNITED WAY INC | $100,000 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS INC | $83,898 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $65,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ZOO FOUNDATION INC | $65,000 |
| KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC | $56,683 |
| OHIO VALLEY UNITED CHARITIES INC | $52,878 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| LINCOLN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $519k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
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.
258 repeat relationships — 258 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k 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
- MUMETRO UNITED WAY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +7%
- YAYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $273k · revenue +26%
- TWTHE WINTERCARE ENERGY FUND INC2× · 2024–2025 · $214k · revenue +48% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- 2G2022 grantsone grant, 2022 · $5.7M
- 2G2021 grantsone grant, 2021 · $5.1M
- 2G2020 grantsone grant, 2020 · $4.8M
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 represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
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,…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Kentucky Habitat for Humanity's purpose is to work on a statewide level to create partnerships, financial resources, and educational programs to support the mission of building decent, affordable, and sustainable homes and communities for…
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of 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.
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.
To promote and assist, whether financially or otherwise, the activities of the greater louisville workforce development board, inc. d/b/a kentuckianaworks, and to raise funds and coordinate efforts that encourage louisville area residents…
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Napoleon Hill Foundation. 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 28 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
364 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. 364 of the 446 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WINTERCARE ENERGY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WINTERHELP INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY UNITED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOLLAR ENERGY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Herrington Lake Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF KENTUCKY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE 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: The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · 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 LG&E and Ku 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.